America Explorers Before Columbus Viking Leif EricsonAbout Viking Leif Ericson, history of the man who may have visited the Americas before Columbus.A CHRONOLOGY OF THE EXPLORATION OF THE AMERICAS
POSSIBLE VISITS PREDATING COLUMBUS
1001--Viking Leif Ericson
Son of hot-tempered Eric the Red, who discovered and colonized Greenland, Leif Ericson was a "temperate, fair-dealing" young man in his 20s when he set sail with a crew of 35 in his knarr, a beamy, knockabout cousin of the Viking dragonship. Ericson and his crew made it to Vinland, now identified by archaeologists as Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland. | ||
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