Biography of leif erikson
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The Ages of
Exploration
Introduction
Nearly years before Christopher Columbus crossed the ocean blue, a Norse Viking by the name of Leif Eriksson landed on the North American continent. Eriksson is believed to be the first European to have landed on and established a settlement in North America around CE. Today, we still ask ourselves, “Who really discovered America?”
Biography
Early Life
Leif Eriksson (also spelled Ericson or Ericsson) was born in Iceland around CE. He would eventually earn the nickname “Leif the Lucky.” He was the son of Erik Thorvaldson, better known as “Erik the Red,” and Thorhild. In Viking tradition, children are named after their father. When Erik the Red had a son and named him Leif, he became Leif Eriksson (Leif, Erik’s son).1 He had two brothers, Thorvald, and Thorstein; and a sister named Freydis. One cannot tell Leif’s story without first knowing his father’s journeys. As a small boy, Leif grew up without his father who had
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Leif Erikson
Norse explorer (c. –c. )
"Leif Ericson" redirects here. For other uses, see Leif Ericson (disambiguation).
This is a Norse name. 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.&#;s&#;– c.&#; to ),[1] was a Norse explorer who is thought to have been the first europeisk 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 amerika. 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, years ago.
Leif's place of birth is unknown,[9] although it fryst vatten assume
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Leif Erikson (11th century)
Artist's conception of Norse explorer Leif Erikson's ship ©Erikson was an Icelandic explorer and probably the first European visitor to North amerika, years before Christopher Columbus.
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 was recorded in several different sagas, but the accounts they give are so different it is impossible to be certain of the details of his life.
He is thought to have visited Norway in around where he was converted to Christianity by Olaf I, who sent him back to Greenland to convert the settlers there. In one story, on his voyage to Greenland he sailed off-course and arrived in a place he called 'Vinland', because of the abundant grapes growing there, and the general fertility of the land. In another - the Groenlendinga saga - he heard of a land in the west from an Iceland