Leif Ericson ( Old Norse : Leifr Eiríksson ) (c. 970 – c. 1020 ) was a Norse explorer who was probably the first European to land in North America . According to the Norse sagas ...
Explorers, Pioneers, and Frontiersmen Leif Eriksson 975?-1020. Erik Thorvaldsson, popularly know as Erik the Red, led a colonizing party to Greenland in 986 A.D. after being forced ...