Leif Erikson

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• SOURCE: Time Magazine
  10-5-18
  

  The Troubling History of the Fight to Honor Leif Erikson—Not Columbus—as the Man Who 'Discovered America'

  Leif Erikson Day is a celebration of the Viking explorer credited with reaching the continent around the year 1000, nearly 500 years before Columbus did.

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• 4-9-16
  

  Who Really Discovered America?

  by Ed Simon

  That’s a complicated and fraught question that no fresh discovery of the Vikings’ presence, however important, can answer.