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the viking that colonized Geenland in the 980s. He became the first leader of the viking comunities on Greenland. He was the father of Leif Erickson.
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A viking see captain, explorer and trader who spotted the coast of North America around 986 but didn't ever land on it. His stories made Leif Erickson want to go there, which he did around the year 1002.
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The son of Erick the Red. Leif was a greenlander who had been born in Iceland but as a young man traveled to Norway where he became a chistian. Leif was the first european decent to set foot on the North American continent.
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The explorer who sailed west from spain in 1492 and was the first person to sail across the middle of the Atlantic ocean.
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He found cape briton with tons of cod fish for the english that sent him on his voyage. The explorer from england who crossed the Atlantic and reached either Newfoundland or cape briton island in the year 1497
