Last month, the library announced that new tests had revealed that the 15th-century map was actually drawn with 20th-century ink. The Leif Erikson story has its ugly side. Racial theorists have ...

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 ...