[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 Greenland), before 
Christopher Columbus. ... His year of birth is most often given as c. 970 or c. 980. 
... Leif had two brothers, whose names were Thorsteinn and Thorvaldr, and a 
sister, Freyds. [DOC] [TLE] The Viking Explorer Who Beat Columbus to America - History in the ... [PAR] Oct 8, 2013 ... Leif Eriksson Day commemorates the Norse explorer believed to ... Check back 
soon or see our FAQs here. ... Nearly 500 years before the birth of Christopher 
Columbus, a band of ... Eriksson, who is believed to have been born in Iceland 
around A.D. 970, spent his formative years in desolate Greenland. [DOC] [TLE] Newfoundland settlement suggests Vikings set foot in America 500 ... [PAR] Apr 1, 2016 ... Is this the rock that proves Vikings DID discover America? ... North America 
nearly 500 years before Christopher Columbus made his ... 1492AD Italian 
explorer Christopher Columbus lands in the New ... 'If we were in Iceland we 
wouldn't think twice about that. ...... 'I dream she's still here and then I wake up. [DOC] [TLE] Vikings on the Charles | Needham Historical Society [PAR] The idea of placing a statue of Leif Eriksson on Commonwealth Avenue was first 
suggested in 1877. ... Bull visited Boston in 1870 and stayed in Longfellow's 
Cambridge home. ... insufficient evidence to support the claim of the Norse 
discovery of America. ..... Columbus came here 500 years later, and he changed 
the world. [DOC] [TLE] Leif Erikson - born 960 - 980 A.D. in Iceland - died 1020 in ... [PAR] He was a Viking Explorer and the first recorded European to set foot on the ... in 
the year 1000 A.D. in the area of northern Newfoundland, nearly 500 years 
before the discovery of the America's by Christopher Columbus in 1492. ... Statue 
of Ingolfur Arnarson the Viking Inglfur Arnarson the first Nordic settler of Iceland. 
He. [DOC] [TLE] The Ancient Americas (1) - Exploring Theosophy (David Pratt) [PAR] When Columbus visited Portugal around 1482 to try and win King John II's 
patronage, ... The 13th-century explorer and spy Marco Polo was involved in 
many epic ... reached the Pacific shores of Ecuador or Peru 500 years before the 
Spanish .... their claims of territorial annexation, some Phoenicians remained 
here and,... [DOC] [TLE] Iceland | March/April 2009 - AAAGoingPlaces.com [PAR] Iceland Europe's Coolest Little Hot Spot Story and Photos by David Noyes ... east 
along the Ring Road to a glacier whose name is, quite simply, unpronounceable. 
... I felt like a polar explorer on an uncharted expeditionor at least like one of ... 
first European to set foot on North America, nearly 500 years before Columbus. [DOC] [TLE] Was America The Wonderful Land Of Fusang? | American History ... [PAR] This one seems to have left China almost immediately, in the company of ... 
whose ancient civili/.ation and disappearance had been related by Egyptian ... 
After he returned to China in the year 499, Hwui Shan appeared before the 
Emperor Wu Ti. A kind of Marco Polo in reverse, possibly the first Oriental to have 
seen the... [DOC] [TLE] Archaeological News [PAR] Excavation nearly complete at ancient tomb in east China Xinhuanet ... Humans 
may have occupied Southern Cone of South America 14,000 years ... Recent 
archaeological finds in Iceland suggests that the country may have been 
inhabited .... Following Columbus: The team trying to rewrite the explorer's route 
BBC News. [DOC] [TLE] Warm welcome in Iceland | Troy Media [PAR] Mar 22, 2014 ... Photo supplied by Visit Iceland. The tower of Hallgrmskirkja, a Lutheran church, 
is visible almost .... a Lutheran church whose concrete tower stretches 73 meters 
into the ... Outside, standing guard, is a statue of Norse explorer Leif Ericson, ... 
America (in present-day Newfoundland) nearly 500 years before... [DOC] [TLE] Leif Erikson | Open Access articles | Open Access journals ... [PAR] "Leif Ericson" and "Leif Erickson" redirect here. ... 1020)

Question: This Icelandic explorer whose statue is seen here visited America almost 500 years before Columbus
Answer: Leif Ericson