Eric's house had grown since Leif had left. The herds had multiplied and there were new houses and more slaves. The spring after Leif arrived, Eric was summoned to a Thingvellir or lawmaking assembly.
Eric took Leif along with him to the Thing. The next day, among the crowds, Eric met a man with whom he was feuding. They started to fight and Eric killed the other man. Because of this, the Thing council banished Eric from Iceland for three years. Eric, not being able to go to Norway he had previously banished from there too decided to investigate rumors of lands to the west. So, Eric took his wife and kids, some slaves, and ample supplies and traveled west. A few days later they landed on a new land, which he named Greenland and started to build a camp.
It was on this voyage that Leif is believed to have learned how to be a good deep-sea sailor. Discovery of Greenland. For the years Eric spent on Greenland during his banishment, he explored the new land and taught Leif many things. After three years, Eric traveled back to Iceland and told the people about Greenland. Many people decided to return to Greenland with Eric and his family because times had not been good in Iceland. There had been a famine, the lands were overgrazed, and there were almost no trees left.
Leif was probably 15 to 17 when he was out and saw a young polar bear on an ice flow. He decided to capture the bear but there was a strong current between the ice flow and land. So using his knowledge of the sea, he went "upstream" from the polar bear and let the current carry his boat into the ice flow. After capturing the bear he used the same tactic to get back to land, impressing the people on shore.
One day, when Leif was watching the boats, he saw an old tattered ship rowing very slowly. Leif became very exited because he recognized this ship as belonging to Bjarni Hergelfson, who had been gone over a year. After the ship landed, Leif followed Bjarni into a hall where Bjarni told the story of how mist had covered the North Star so they couldn't navigate.
They sailed for many days and finally spotted land, but it wasn't Greenland, where they had been heading. Glaciers did not cover the coast they had seen, but instead it was green with trees. They did not go ashore though, because they wanted to get to Greenland.
They kept sailing and found another land. This one was flat and forest covered, but they did not land there either. They had to get back to Greenland. First Voyage. At the age of 24, Leif was asked to captain his first voyage. This was to bring gifts to King Olaf in Norway. Many preparations were made and Leif was very excited. Leif took along a crew of 14 and Thyrker. The wind Leif was sailing on was fair at the beginning, but after their first day it slowed only to a gentle breeze.
It was five days before they sighted Iceland. Most voyages make it in two. The crew wanted to go ashore but Leif would not let them, so they kept sailing. They sailed for many days and Leif thought they would run out of food. Finally they sighted some small islands, the Hebrides, they realized they had sailed farther south than they had intended.
Leif called the area Vinland Vine Land and he and his crew remained there until the spring. They then set sail back to Greenland, loaded with timber, wheat and grapes for their people at home.
On the way home, the saga tells of them seeing a shipwreck and rescuing two sailors trapped there. The excavated remains of wood-framed peat-turf buildings are similar to those found in Norse Greenland and Iceland. The lack of burial sites and tools suggests that it was not a long-lived settlement but rather could have been a camp set up as a boat-repair facility. The presence of certain food items, such as butternuts, suggest that those who inhabited the settlement must have travelled further south, at least as far as New Brunswick.
Many scholars disagree with the possibility that vines were growing grapes in Newfoundland as the temperatures would not have been high enough. The first statue of Leif Erikson was erected in Boston in and a replica was erected in Milwaukee. In at the Minnesota State Fair, President Calvin Coolidge marked the centenary of the first official immigration of Norwegians to America by declaring that Leif Erikson had indeed been the first European to discover America. In connection with the World Exhibition in Seattle in , a five-metre-high monument to Leif was erected.
A smaller version was donated to Trondheim in connection for the city millennium in , and stands by the modern Pirsenteret development watching cruise ships arrive. A quick note on spelling… while Leif Erikson is the common English spelling, the surname can also be spelled Ericson.
Norway is not only champion in peace building work but even in dicovering new lands for mankind. Thank you. İ have some idea about your country, may be disco ver America before than Ch iri stoper Colomb ,so Now l have been learned that it is suitsble that Norwegens disco ver America. İ am interested history. Thank you again for this useful knowledge. The Europeans that settled in these regions are North Americans or Icelanders etc. The precise identity of Vinland remains uncertain, with various locations on the North American coast identified.
In , archaeologists found ruins of a Viking-type settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows, in northern Newfoundland, which correspond to Leif's description of Vinland. Search term:. Read more. This page is best viewed in an up-to-date web browser with style sheets CSS enabled.
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