Helge Ingstad
Norwegian explorer
Helge Marcus Ingstad was a Norwegian explorer. In 1960, after mapping some Norse settlements, Ingstad and his wife archaeologist Anne Stine Ingstad found remnants of a Viking settlement in L'Anse aux Meadows in the province of Newfoundland in... Wikipedia
Born: December 30, 1899, Meråker Municipality, Norway
Died: March 29, 2001 (age 101 years), Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway
Spouse: Anne Stine Ingstad (m. 1941)
Children: Benedicte Ingstad
Previous office: Governor of Erik the Red's Land (1932–1933)