Vinland

Leif Ericson was a Viking from Greenland at the turn of the 11th century, who was commissioned by the King of Norway to evangelise his homeland. On his voyage home, he was blown off course to Newfoundland. He soon returned there to establish a trading post, making him the first European known to have founded a settlement in North America.

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