What was Leif Erikson like as a person?

Neither the Saga of Eirik the Red nor the Saga of the Greenlanders gives us any detail about his physical appearance nor personnality, except for some very conventionnal traits, son were are reduced to mere suppositions. read more

Leif Erikson was an Icelandic explorer who became the first European to reach North America, some 500 years before Christopher Columbus. Son of Erik the Red, who was the founder of the European settlement in Greenland, much of Leif Erikson’s life is generated by the two sagas, Saga of the Erik the Red and Groenlendinga Saga. read more

Leif Erikson or Leif Ericson (c. 970 – c. 1020) was a Norse explorer from Iceland. He was the first known European to have discovered continental North America (excluding Greenland), before Christopher Columbus. read more