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Details
| First Name |
Leif
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| Last Name |
Ericson
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| Birthday |
30th November, 0969
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| Birthplace |
Icelandic Commonwealth
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| Died |
1020
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| Place of Death |
Greenland
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| Build |
Athletic
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| Ethnicity |
White
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| Nationality |
Icelander
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| Occupation Text |
Norse explorer from Iceland
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| Occupation |
Explorer
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| Claim to Fame |
first known European to have set foot on continental North America (excluding Greenland)
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Leif Erikson, also known as Leif the Lucky (c. – c.), 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. According to the sagas of Icelanders, he established a Norse settlement at Vinland, which is usually interpreted as being coastal North America. 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 1,000 years ago.
