Vikings reached North America 500 years early
Around 1000 AD, Viking explorers from Greenland were the first Europeans to reach North America, proving their incredible seafaring skills centuries before Columbus.
Long before Christopher Columbus, Viking seafarers from Greenland became the first Europeans to reach North America around 1000 AD. Leif Erikson led expeditions to a land he called Vinland, likely modern-day Newfoundland, Canada. This remarkable journey followed centuries of Norse expansion from Norway, through Iceland, and finally to Greenland.
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