Alphabetical Index
Index by Year of Birth
Leif Erikson
* c. 970 in Iceland
+ c. 1020
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.
2020 J. Giesen