GREAT ADVENTURERS FROM THE LAND OF GREAT ADVENTURES
 

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Leif Ericson (970?-1020?), was born in Iceland, then a Viking island outpost belonging to what would eventually become Norway. Son of outcast Norseman Eric the Red, Ericson, hearing of a forested, warmer, distant land to the west, sailed and rowed his Viking ship from a failing base colony in Greenland to landfall on what is now Labrador or Newfoundland.
 
          Recent carbon-dated evidence found in maritime Canada

support Leif Ericson’s claim to being the first European to set foot on the North American continent. And his journey occurred 1,000 years ago — as many years before Columbus's journeys to the Caribbean (he never touched the North American mainland) as have passed since.
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N.B.: St. Brendan’s legendary voyage from Ireland to Newfoundland 500 years before Leif Ericson has been proved possible, but not yet confirmed.
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