Thorgunna leif ericsson biography

Norse explorer (c. 970–c. 1020)

"Leif Ericson" redirects here. For other uses, see Leif Ericson (disambiguation).

This is a Norse name.

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The last name is a patronymic, not a family name; this person is properly referred to by the given name Leif.

Leif Erikson,^{[note 1]} also known as Leif the Lucky (c. 970s – c. 1018 to 1025),^[1] was a Norse explorer who is thought to have been the first European to set foot on continental America, approximately half a millennium before Christopher Columbus.^[7][8] 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, which was occupied approximately 1,000 years ago.

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