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Leif Erikson, son of Erik the Red, sailed west from Greenland around 1000 with a crew of Norse settlers, following earlier reports of land sighted by Bjarni Herjolfsson. He is credited with reaching a region the sagas call Vinland, believed to correspond to parts of what is now Newfoundland in Canada. Archaeological evidence at L'Anse aux Meadows, a Norse settlement site excavated in the 1960s, supports the presence of Norse voyagers in North America around this time. This made Erikson and his crew among the earliest Europeans known to have set foot on the continent, roughly five centuries before Christopher Columbus's voyages across the Atlantic.The settlement was short lived, and the Norse did not remain permanently.
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Leif Erikson reaches North America is dated to c. 1000.
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Leif Erikson, son of Erik the Red, sailed west from Greenland around 1000 with a crew of Norse settlers, following earlier reports of land sighted by Bjarni Herjolfsson. He is credited with reaching a region the sagas call Vinland, believed to correspond to parts of what is now Newfoundland in Canada. Archaeological evidence at L'Anse aux Meadows, a Norse settlement site excavated in the 1960s, supports the presence of Norse voyagers in North America around this time. This made Erikson and his crew among the earliest Europeans known to have set foot on the continent, roughly five centuries before Christopher Columbus's voyages across the Atlantic.The settlement was short lived, and the Norse did not remain permanently.
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