By the time the archeologists weighed in, however, the idea of Leif Erikson landing in America before Columbus had already taken root, thanks to the 1874 book by Ramus B. Anderson that suggested ...

Many have claimed to have "discovered" the America's first. From Christopher Columbus, to Leif Erikson, all the way to the ...

Such stories have long hinted that Vikings, including famed explorer Leif Erikson, ventured westward to harvest resources, particularly timber, from the lush, forested coasts of North America.

Icelandic sagas tell how the 10th-century Viking sailor Leif Eriksson stumbled on a new land ... Vikings had indeed reached the coast of America five centuries before Columbus.

Leif Erikson (also spelled Ericsson, or Eiriksson) was the second of three sons of Erik the Red, who established a settlement in Greenland after he was exiled from Iceland. Leif Erikson's story ...

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