Waquoit Bay

1893 USGS Map of Waquoit Bay

Waquoit Bay is a small landlocked tidal bay on the south shore of Cape Cod in the state of Massachusetts. The bay is connected with Nantucket Sound and separates the towns of Mashpee and Falmouth.^[1] The etymology of the Wompanoag language word Weeqay8ut (Waquoit) means Place of Light. ^[2]

In the early 1960s, Norwegian researcher Johannes Kristoffer Tornöe (1891-1970) suggested the shallow bay as a possible location of Leifsbudir, (Leif's booths or houses). Leifsbudir was mentioned in the Greenland Saga in reference to Leif Eriksson and the Norse colony of Vinland. ^{[3] [4]}

See also

• Follins Pond
• Washburn Island, Massachusetts
• Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve

References

1. USGS Map Check
2. Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project http://www.wlrp.org/fun-with-words.html. Retrieved 20 October 2016. Missing or empty |title= (help)
3. Joe Burns (August 25, 2008). "Man builds case that Leif Eriksson landed on Cape Cod". Gatehouse Media, Inc. Retrieved October 16, 2015.
4. "Johannes Kristoffer Tornøe - Sekretær, kaptein, historikar". Norsk Polar Historie. Retrieved October 16, 2015.

Other Sources

• Davis, Graeme (2009) Vikings in America (Edinburgh: Birlinn Ltd.) ISBN 9781841587011
• Hovgaard, William (1914) The voyages of the Norsemen to America (New York: The American-Scandinavian Foundation)
• Pohl, Frederick J. (1957) The Vikings on Cape Cod: Evidence from an Archaeological Discovery (Pictou, Nova Scotia: Pictou Advocate Press)
• Tornöe, Johannes Kristoffer (1964) Early American history: Norsemen before Columbus (Oslo: Universitetsforlaget)

External links

• Citizens for the Protection of Waquoit Bay

Coordinates: 41°33′00″N 70°31′40″W / 41.55000°N 70.52778°W