Leif Erikson (also spelled Ericsson ... In one story, on his voyage to Greenland he sailed off-course and arrived in a place he called 'Vinland', because of the abundant grapes growing there ...

The Leif Erikson story has its ugly side ... haven’t undermined the heroic symbolism of those Viking voyages and the virtues those figures embodied, as well as their more obvious faults.

The medieval Scandinavians left an impact not just on Greenland and Iceland, but on France, England, Russia, Ireland, and ...