While the actual date of Leif Erikson Day doesn’t have anything personally to do with Leif, it was picked for the holiday because it’s the anniversary of the day that the ship Restauration ...

Leif Erikson’s foray into North America began over a thousand years ago—long before Columbus’s 1492 journey. Read on to find out more about the intrepid explorer. 1.

The Leif Erikson story has its ugly side. Racial theorists have used the evidence both real and manufactured of a Norse arrival before Columbus to prove that America somehow had Nordic “Aryan ...

Leif Erikson was the first European to set foot on continental America, around half a millennium before Christopher Columbus ...

The dedication ceremony for the Leif Erikson Memorial was part of the Leif Erikson Day celebration held in St. Paul on October 9, 1949. An estimated 3,000 to 5,000 people attended the thirteen ...

October 9 is Leif Erickson Day, but don’t go grabbing that horned hat to wear just yet. His story – and that of the Vikings – is rife with misinformation.

A statue of Leif Erikson looks out across the Muddy River in Charlesgate Park, Boston. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR) 986: Erikson left Iceland after his father was banished around this year.

Scholars believe that Leif Erikson was born in Iceland in 968, and he died in Greenland in 1020. The Icelandic Sagas tell of his voyage in the year 1000, and subsequent voyages by his brother.

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, Columbus fans). But no such luck.

October 9 is Leif Erikson Day, which has been observed annually in the U.S. by presidential proclamation since the 1960s. Here in Boston, a statue of the famed Viking stands proud ⁠— if seemingly a ...

October 9 is Leif Erickson Day, but don’t go grabbing that horned hat to wear just yet. His story – and that of the Vikings – is rife with misinformation.