[DOC] [TLE] The Viking Explorer Who Beat Columbus to America - History in the ... [PAR] Oct 8, 2013 ... His father, Erik the Red, founded the first European settlement of ... of a strange 
land to the west from Icelandic trader Bjarni Herjolfsson, who ... never returned to 
North America, but other Vikings continued to sail ... the first European expedition 
to North America has not been totally forgotten on the calendar. [DOC] [TLE] Leif Erikson - Wikipedia [PAR] Leif Erikson or Leif Ericson was an Icelandic explorer and the first known 
European to have discovered North America (excluding ... Later archaeological 
evidence suggests that Vinland may have been the ... Consequently, if this is to 
be trusted, Bjarni Herjlfsson was the first European to see America beyond 
Greenland,... [DOC] [TLE] Bjarni Herjlfsson - Wikipedia [PAR] Bjarni Herjlfsson (fl. 10th century) was a Norse-Icelandic explorer who is the first 
known European discoverer of the mainland of the Americas, which he sighted in 
986. Contents. [hide]. 1 Life. 1.1 Discovery of America ... Discovery of America[
edit]. Bjarni is believed to have been the first European to see North America. [DOC] [TLE] Norse colonization of the Americas - Wikipedia [PAR] The Norse colonization of the Americas began as early as the 10th century AD, 
when ... Continental North American settlements were small and did not develop 
into permanent ... According to the Sagas of Icelanders, Norsemen from Iceland 
first settled ... In addition, Greenlandic ivory may have been supplanted in 
European... [DOC] [TLE] Vinland - Wikipedia [PAR] Vinland, Vineland or Winland (Old Norse: Vnland) is the area of coastal North 
America explored by Norse Vikings, where Leif Erikson first ... There is a 
runestone which may have contained a record of the Old Norse name slightly 
predating Adam of Bremen's Winland. ... First, it is identified as the land found by 
Leif Ericson. [DOC] [TLE] Short on Curiosity: The Story of Bjorn Herjolfsson - The Ultimate ... [PAR] Was this "promising young man" the first European to see North America? ... 
Asked whether this new land was Greenland, Bjarni indicated that this was ... 
after Bjarni Herjolfsson may have caught glimpses of the North American ... Cod 
but rather in L'Anse aux Meadows, a site at the northern tip of Newfoundland in 
Canada. [DOC] [TLE] The Vikings Conquerors and Colonizers  Watchtower ONLINE ... [PAR] Another factor may have been that it was common for wealthy Viking men to have 
... Later that year fellow Norseman Bjarni Herjolfsson set off from Iceland to join 
his ... Bjarni was probably the first Norseman to sight North America, says the ... 
The following year Leif's brother Thorwald led an expedition to Vinland, but he... [DOC] [TLE] So, Who Did Discover America? | History Today [PAR] First comes Zuan Chabotto (c.1450-99), the Venetian navigator and explorer. ... 
the American mainland until 1498, while he touched the North American shore a 
full year earlier. ... Abu Raihan al-Biruni, an Islamic scholar from Central Asia, 
may have ... (Cabot) from Venice had been commissioned to sail to the 'new land'
. [DOC] [TLE] Don't Know Much About History: Everything You Need to Know ... [PAR] Everything You Need to Know about American History But Never Learned ... No 
correspondents were on board when Columbus's ships reached land. Historians 
have been forced instead to rely on accounts written by .... Norseman, Bjarni 
Herjolfsson, who was the first European to sight North America, in 985 or 986. But 
it... [DOC] [TLE] Celebrate the Discovery of the Viking Leifur ... - Vinland Publishing [PAR] Oct 9, 2016 ... Site logo ... First of all they  the same government that lies to its citizens daily - 
misspelled his name. ... set foot on the North American continent during his 
alleged voyage of ... Irish monks may have done it 400-years before Leifur, but 
we will ... The first sighting was made by Bjarni Herjulfsson of Iceland. [DOC] [TLE] The First Euro-Americans: Norsemen in the New World. [PAR] But the Norsemen did establish dozens of communities in this remote land,

Question: Bjarni Herjulfsson may have been the first to sight North America, but this Norseman's expedition was first to land
Answer: Leif Ericson