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Helge Ingstad, a Common card
Helge Marcus Ingstad was a Norwegian explorer.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 66
- DEF
- 56
- Power
- 122
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 13,000
Power 122 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 60 % of WikiCards cards.
Helge Ingstad quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Helge Ingstad card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
In which decade?
In ____, 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 Canada.
Answer
1960s. 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 Canada. From the Helge Ingstad article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Doris Hart. Doris Hart 75 · Willy Ley 69 · Helge Ingstad 66 · Michael of Chernigov 63 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- 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 Canada.
- They were thus the first to prove conclusively that the Icelandic/Greenlandic Norsemen such as Leif Erickson had found a way across the Atlantic Ocean to North America, roughly 500 years before Christopher Columbus and John Cabot.
- He also thought that the mysterious disappearance of the Greenland Norse Settlements in the 14th and 15th centuries could be explained by their emigration to North America.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Helge Ingstad article was read about 13,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 66 and blocks with 56: each hit it takes is cut by 22 %.
How to get Helge Ingstad
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Helge Ingstad (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Christian Krohg, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
