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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.
Leif Erikson, Norse explorer widely held to have been the first European to reach the shores of North America. The 13th- and 14th-century Icelandic accounts of his life show that he was a member of an early voyage to eastern North America, although he may not have been the first to sight its coast.
21 lis 2023 · Read on to find out more about the intrepid explorer. 1. Leif Erikson’s story is chronicled in the Icelandic sagas. Written in the 13th and 14th centuries, the Icelandic Sagas are a set of...
13 gru 2022 · Leif Erikson is the first European and Viking that was documented to have found and landed in North America, but the first Norseman to discover the continent was likely Bjarni Herjólfsson who allegedly sailed there in 986 CE but never landed.
22 kwi 2010 · Leif Eriksson was a Norse explorer, and the first known European to have set foot on continental North America, on what is now called Greenland.
20 wrz 2018 · Leif Erikson (also spelled Leif Eriksson, Old Norse Leifr Eiríksson), nicknamed Leif 'the Lucky', was a Norse Viking who is best known for arguably being the first European to have set foot on North...
Życiorys. [edytuj | edytuj kod] Przeszedł na chrześcijaństwo w Norwegii, w czasie gdy czyniło tak wielu Normanów. Kiedy wrócił do Grenlandii, usłyszał o nieznanym lądzie na zachodzie, odkrytym przez Bjarniego Herjólfssona. Saga o Grenlandczykach (Grænlendinga saga) mówi, że około roku 1002 Leif wyruszył na zachód szlakiem Bjarniego.
