Even today, the national holiday celebrating Leif Erikson’s landing in Newfoundland ... American continent almost 500 years before Christopher Columbus, around 1000 a.d. The Saga of the ...

Christopher Columbus, a dead white male of the worst ... Columbus deserves little credit (Leif Erikson had “discovered” the “new” continent 500 years earlier) and much blame for the ...

Christopher Columbus was a 15th and 16th century explorer ... There is also the saga of Leif Eriksson's voyage to Vinland—the mysterious spot on which he landed in North America.

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 ...