VÍKINGAHEIMARTHE VOYAGE · AD 2000
17 June 2000
Reykjavík, Iceland
Nine men board a ship built without blueprints. The harbour watches them leave.
15 July 2000
Brattahlíð, Greenland
Landfall after a ten-hour ordeal in bad weather off Cape Farewell. Millennium celebrations attended by Queen Margrethe II of Denmark.
28 July 2000
L'Anse aux Meadows
The only authenticated Viking settlement on mainland North America. Millennium celebrations with other replica Viking ships.
5 October 2000
New York Harbour
After three months at sea and several ports of call in Newfoundland, the Íslendingur passes the Statue of Liberty. One thousand years late.
