USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Leif Erikson, Leiv Eiriksson, or Leif Ericson, also known as Leif the Lucky ( c. 970 – c. 1019 to 1025), was a Norse explorer who is thought to have been the first European to have set foot on continental North America, approximately half a millennium before Christopher Columbus.

Detailed explanation-2: -Leif Eriksson Day commemorates the Norse explorer believed to have led the first European expedition to North America.

Detailed explanation-3: -Leif Erikson, Erikson also spelled Eriksson, Ericson, or Eiriksson, Old Norse Leifr Eiríksson, byname Leif the Lucky, (flourished 11th century), Norse explorer widely held to have been the first European to reach the shores of North America.

Detailed explanation-4: -Leif Erikson (also spelled Leif Eriksson, Old Norse Leifr Eiríksson), nicknamed Leif ‘the Lucky’, was a Norse Viking who is best known for arguably being the first European to have set foot on North American soil along with his crew c. 1000 CE.

Detailed explanation-5: -Discover Vikings This and subsequent archaeological discoveries proved Leif Erickson and crews of Norse explorers settled here in Newfoundland and Labrador (or Vinland as they called it).