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  2. Norse colonization of North America - Wikipedia

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    Although the idea of Norse voyages to, and a colony in, North America was discussed by Swiss scholar Paul Henri Mallet in his book Northern Antiquities (English translation 1770), [92] the sagas first gained widespread attention in 1837 when the Danish antiquarian Carl Christian Rafn revived the idea of a Viking presence in North America. [93]

  3. Timeline of Norse colonization of the Americas - Wikipedia

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    c. 1000: Erik the Red and Leif Ericson, Viking navigators, discovered and settled Greenland, Helluland (possibly Baffin Island), Markland (now called Labrador), and Vinland (now called Newfoundland). The Greenland colony lasted until the 15th century. c. 1350: The Norse Western Settlement in Greenland was abandoned.

  4. Leif Erikson - Wikipedia

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    Leif was the son of Erik the Red and his wife Thjodhild (Old Norse: Þjóðhildur), and, through his paternal line, the grandson of Thorvald Ásvaldsson.When Erik the Red was young, his father was banished from Norway for manslaughter, and the family went into exile in Iceland (which, during the century preceding Leif's birth, had been colonized by Norsemen, mainly from Norway).

  5. Vikings were in North America in 1021, well before Columbus ...

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    Vikings from Greenland — the first Europeans to arrive in the Americas — lived in a village in Canada’s Newfoundland exactly 1,000 years ago, researchers say. Vikings were in North America ...

  6. Vinland - Wikipedia

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    Vinland was the name given to part of North America by the Icelandic Norseman Leif Eriksson, about 1000 AD. It was also spelled Winland, [4] as early as Adam of Bremen's Descriptio insularum Aquilonis ("Description of the Northern Islands", ch. 39, in the 4th part of Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum), written circa 1075.

  7. Exploration of North America - Wikipedia

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    Great Surveys of the American West. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1980. Fernlund, Kevin J.William Henry Holmes and the Rediscovery of the American West. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2000. Goetzmann, William H. Exploration and Empire: The Explorer and the Scientist in the Winning of the American West. New York: Alfred A ...

  8. Leif Erikson Day - Wikipedia

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    Leif Erikson Day is an annual observance that occurs on October 9. [1] It honors Leif Erikson ( Old Norse : Leifr Eiríksson ), [ note 1 ] the Norse explorer who, in approximately 1000 , led the first Europeans believed to have set foot on the continent of North America (other than Greenland ).

  9. History of North America - Wikipedia

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    The only Norse site outside of Greenland yet discovered in North America is at L'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland and Labrador in Canada. All of the Norse colonies were eventually abandoned. The Norse voyages did not become common knowledge in the Old World.