Historical figure

Leif Erikson

970 – 1020

Norse explorer 11th century

Norse explorer who, according to Icelandic sagas, reached Vinland in North America around the year 1000, nearly five centuries before Columbus's voyages.

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Evidence for European presence in the Americas in AD 1021 Margot Kuitems et al. · Nature · 2021 Discussed in Who First Reached America? Norse, Columbus, and Debated Evidence
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus Charles C. Mann · Knopf · 2005 Discussed in Who First Reached America? Norse, Columbus, and Debated Evidence
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The Viking Discovery of America: The Excavation of a Norse Settlement in L'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland Helge Ingstad dan Anne Stine Ingstad · Checkmark Books · 2000 Discussed in Who First Reached America? Norse, Columbus, and Debated Evidence

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Who First Reached America? Norse, Columbus, and Debated Evidence

The question of who first reached America seems simple but contains assumptions that need to be examined. The American continents were inhabited for thousands of…

sekitar 1000 - 1492 3 min read 10 Nov 8, 2026

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