Who was the Viking who first explored North America?

those who voted for Ragnar lothbrok must be fans of Vikings

Vikings may have come well before that. Some believe there is evidence in the Kensington Rune Stone found in MN. The Vikings were great explorers and I am proud to be of their lineage! Skøl!

somewhere in the state of Connecticut is a building, not too large, the sole function is to allow the morning rays of the summer solstice to shine on the back of the building. I don't think Mayflower guys built this.

St. Brendan, an Irish Abbot sailed across the Atlantic in the 6th Century with 14 monks and survived. Read Tim Sevrin's account in "The Brendan Voyage"

I'm a direct descendant of Harold Bluetooth (or harald blåtand) Being Danish but living in England I daily notice how the Vikings influenced the English language

I am of Icelandic heritage on both parents side. What I love about this picture is the helmets. I get tired of seeing Vikings wearing helmets with horns...they never had horned helmets. I have no idea where that came from. Proud to be descended from Vikings.

The indians in Mexico say their ancestors were waiting for Queztalcoatl who is tall and bearded and came in wooden vessels.

there is an excavation of a Viking village at L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland.

Grillchees, you should be proud, my sons are descendants of Vikings too, paternally. And I'm not much on math, but if he was born in Iceland 970 A.D., but expelled from there in 985 A.D., then he was only 15 when he killed a guy then expelled. correct??...

Grillchees, Stones like that have been found in various places in America, one in my state of North Carolina, found behind a church in an very old cemetery, I will name the town but this particular stone is hidden by the family and lawyers are helping keeping the stone safe, Smithsonian institution wants it but the family does not want to give it up to them , ridiculous and true,

It goes to show that humans are an exploring people. The so called native or indigenous people of North America came from elsewhere. They're not like a plants or insects that are unique to the land.

KnowThyself, Some of the Native Americans have at least partial Polynesian DNA. Basically, native americans as a whole were the ones who found the american lands and settled permanently there. Yay native americans!

Grillchees, Skøl!

we were taught about a lot of different people " discovering " " America " where I went to school. mostly the East Coast. not much about the people who came to the West Coast, though. or from the north or south come to think of it.

Vikings had a settlement in North America exactly one thousand years ago, centuries before Christopher Columbus arrived in the Americas, a study says. Leif Erikson, Leiv Eiriksson, or Leif Ericson,[note 1] also known as Leif the Lucky (c. 970 – c. 1019 to 1025), was a Norse explorer who is thought to have been the first European to have set foot on continental North America, approximately half a millennium before Christopher Columbus.[6][7] According to the sagas of Icelanders, he established a Norse settlement at Vinland, which is usually interpreted as being coastal North America. There is ongoing speculation that the settlement made by Leif and his crew corresponds to the remains of a Norse settlement found in Newfoundland, Canada, called L'Anse aux Meadows, which was occupied 1,000 years ago (carbon dating estimates 990–1050 CE).[8][9][10]

StationaryStreet4, As a Newfoundlander, I know you can visit a Viking archeological site with a reconstructed longhouse and other buildings and artifacts from their settlement on our Northern Peninsula circa 1000 AD.

LittleLL214, I went to Iceland to see the midnight sun. It was overcast, so no sun, but light at midnight was an amazing experience. Iceland is beautiful and the people are very friendly.

Think St Brendan discovered it and recordrd it too before Erickson .Chrostopher Columbus discovered S.Americia tho

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Bill Taggart, They had me at the first half 😁

it is never mentioned that Leif Erikson's sister accompanied him on that voyage, being a competent Viking herself.

St Brendan beat them to it by 400 years! In both cases though the evidence for it is sketchy at best.

Cozzy 25, I got it wrong! Not doing too well in this game.

LittleLL214, maybe they changed the picture here in late 2020, but I don't see any horns on the helmets in this picture. The men look mighty ferocious though!

Alan, unkind and needless comment. Mostly all explorers were as you described. They came to "get the goods" from anywhere they found them. Vikings were pretty brave to head out on the Atlantic in their wooden boats for parys unknown!

Player #7791779, Presumably he sailed back again?

orange tabby cats were the companions of Vikings

Grillchees, I meant I will not mention the name of the town but you can find that out if you’re doing good research,

jaimbo, Erik, his father was expelled...

Grillchees, skål!

Grillchees, P.S. Grilled cheese sounds yummy now., but I'm outta bread... thanks alot mister...🙄

LittleLL214, well known fact they didnt

Well who the hekk voted for Christopher Columbus?