More than a millennium ago, legendary Norse Viking Leif Erikson forever changed the course of history when he fearlessly embarked on a daring expedition into the unknown, becoming the first European ...

SEATTLE - Unwanted when it was proposed in the early 1960s, a bronze statue of Leif Erikson on the shores of Seattle's Shilshole Bay seems to be exacting revenge. Crews attempting to relocate the ...

But his story — and that of the Vikings — is rife with misinformation. For one, there is no evidence that they wore the now famous headgear with the horns. Nor were all Scandinavians and Norse people ...

US President Donald Trump has officially proclaimed October 9 as Leif Erikson Day, honouring the Norse explorer who reached North America roughly 500 years before Christopher Columbus. The ...