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Leif Erikson

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Leif Eriksson - The First European in North America

 

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Who was Leif Erikson?

 

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(Vikings: Valhalla) Leif Eriksson | The Name

 

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Leif Erikson and the Vikings vs. Christopher Columbus | 3 Minute History

 

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Leif Erikson | Like Father Like Son

Leif Erikson, Leiv Eiriksson or Leif Ericson, also known as Leif the Lucky, was a Norse explorer who is thought to have been the first European to have set foot on continental North America, approximately half a millennium before Christopher Columbus. According to the sagas of Icelanders, he established a Norse settlement at Vinland, which is usually interpreted as being coastal North America. There is ongoing speculation that the settlement made by Leif and his crew corresponds to the remains of a Norse settlement found in Newfoundland, Canada, called L'Anse aux Meadows and which was occupied 1,000 years ago.
  • Personal 

  • Discovering Vinland 

  • Account in the ''Saga of Erik the Red'' 

  • Account in the ''Saga of the Greenlanders'' 

  • Archeological evidence of Vinland 

  • Norse and medieval Europe 

  • Norse encounters with the Indigenous peoples 

  • Travels and commemoration 

  • Leif Erikson Day 

  • In fiction