Leif Erikson
Norse explorer (c. 970 – c. 1020)
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Lived 972–1020, aged 48
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Updated 2026-06-08
He beat Columbus to America by roughly five hundred years — a Norse explorer who sailed west from Greenland around the year 1000 and made landfall on continental North America, establishing a settlement the sagas call Vinland.
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Born sometime in the 970s, likely in Iceland, Leif was raised in Greenland after his father Erik the Red founded the first Norse settlement there. Around the turn of the millennium he led an expedition across the North Atlantic and established a Norse outpost at Vinland, generally believed to be coastal North America. The site may correspond to L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland, a Norse settlement occupied roughly a thousand years ago. After his father's death, Leif became chief of the Greenland settlement. He fathered two sons — Thorgils, born in the Hebrides, and Thorkell, who eventually su…
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