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Leif Erikson

* c. 970 in Iceland
+ c. 1020

   

leif erikson

Leif Erikson, Leiv Eiriksson or Leif Ericson was a Norse explorer from Iceland.
He is thought to have been the first known European to have set foot on continental North America,
approximately half a millennium before Christopher Columbus.


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