Leif Erikson (also spelled Ericsson, or Eiriksson) was the second of three sons of Erik the Red, who established a settlement in Greenland after he was exiled from Iceland. Leif Erikson's story ...

Even today, the national holiday celebrating Leif Erikson’s landing in Newfoundland hasn’t stirred anything like the controversy surrounding Columbus Day. ‘They then left to sail to the east ...

Satellite images have led archaeologists to a new excavation site in Canada, yielding more clues to Norse settlements ... the 10th-century Viking sailor Leif Eriksson stumbled on a new land ...

Most people are aware that the Norse explorer Leif Eriksson was the first European to reach America, some 500 years before Christopher Columbus, but very few know he arrived as part of a Christian ...

which threatens the very foundations of the ancient court of the god Odin and other old Norse gods. In particular, the story of Vikings Valhalla focuses on the hero Leif Erikson (Sam Corlett), a ...