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    Was Eric the Red the first European to see America?

    Question #5413. Asked by Albert. (Aug 26 00 9:36 PM)


    Luv2PlaGmz

    		A little-known Norwegian by the name of Bjarni Hjergulfson was the first European to see America. In approximately 986 A.D., Bjarni's boat, headed for Greenland, was blown off course by a terrible storm. When the storm had settled they were off the Labrador coast. Realizing this wasn't Greenland, they turned back to the northeast and sailed to Greenland. Several years later, one Leif Ericson asked Bjarni about the adventure and then proceeded to set up three colonies in North America.

    http://www.mnc.net/norway/ericson.htm

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    Aug 26 00, 11:18 PM
    Morgan

    		And I might add that Leif Ericson was actually Eric the Red's son (thus Ericson). Eric was never in America, though he was the first European in Greenland and constructed several settlements there, from which his son Leif sailed to America.

    Mar 19 02, 4:38 PM

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