leif ericson

     

The brother of this leader is believed to be the first known European to have died in the Americas

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  • In the 990s this son of Erik the Red brought Christianity to Greenland
  • In a ship he bought from Bjarni Herjulfsson, he set sail in 1001 & found Vinland
  • While returning to Greenland in about 1000, he rescued some sailors & received his nickname, Leif the Lucky
  • "Voyages to Vinland" begins with this lucky guy getting baptized
  • Around 1000 A.D. he named the North American coast Vinland
  • This Icelandic explorer whose statue is seen here visited America almost 500 years before Columbus
  • Bjarni Herjulfsson may have been the first to sight North America, but this Norseman's expedition was first to land
  • Thorvald Ericson, this Norse seafarer's brother, was fatally wounded by a native arrow c. 1007
  • Vikings led by this man may have visited what's now Maine around 1000 A.D.
  • One of the first Europeans to reach North America was this son of Eric the Red
  • The mint produced silver coins for the U.S. & Iceland honoring the millennium of his discovery of the New World
  • His family friend Tyrker found vines & grapes in the new land, so he called the area Vinland
  • In 1005 this Norseman's brother Thorvald was killed by Indians, perhaps in what is now Labrador
  • You may have "Red" about his father, Erik, but he was so successful he was nicknamed "The Lucky"
  • October is good for explorers: Columbus Day is the 2nd Monday of the month & this Norse guy gets October 9th
  • By presidential proclamation, October 9 is set aside to honor this Viking & all Americans of Nordic heritage
  • Bjarni Herjolfsson sold his ship to this man who used it to explore Vinland around 1000
  • This explorer's brother Thorvald was killed while on an expedition in Vinland
  • His brothers Thorvald & Thorstein & his half-sister Freydis also traveled to Vinland

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