Many Americans will celebrate the second Monday in October as Columbus Day, a federal holiday that marks the anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s Spanish-led expedition arriving in the Americas, or ...

Although the cartoon character claims to have made up the holiday in the show, it’s a real observance in the U.S. and parts of Canada recognizing the man who landed on North American shores long ...

Netflix is taking the helm from History Channel in order to retell the Viking sagas. This means there are plenty of new characters with which viewers need to get accustomed. Vikings: Valhalla has yet ...

Leif Erikson, was the first European known to have sighted America in the year 1000, almost five centuries before the famous voyages of Christopher Columbus. Erikson sightings resulted in several ...

Oct. 9 might be Leif Erickson Day, but don't go grabbing that horned hat just yet.The day celebrates the 11th-century Norse explorer who is credited with sailing to Newfoundland, Canada, and settling ...

Valhalla star Sam Corlett is set as a lead opposite Christopher Meloni in Hulu's upcoming untitled Dan Fogelman football ...

Said no one Tuesday — or at least apparently not many Chicago-area students. Tuesday was decreed by state law as the day when Illinois schools would celebrate the contributions of the Norse explorer, ...

Thursday, Day 3: That 17-foot statue of Leif Erikson at Shilshole Bay still wouldn’t budge, even after some 40 man-hours of hammering and drilling. It wouldn’t budge even after crews dulled ...

Looking forward to the Columbus three-day weekend? Actually, it should be a four-day holiday, since Tuesday is Leif Erikson Day — the first European to actually set foot in North America (sorry, ...