Leif Erikson
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Leif Erikson, also known as Leif the Lucky, was a Norse explorer who is thought to have been the first European to set foot on continental America, approximately half a millennium before Christopher Columbus. Wikipedia
Born: Icelandic Commonwealth
Died: Greenland
Known for: First European in Vinland (part of North America; probably Newfoundland)
Siblings: Freydís Eiríksdóttir, Thorvald Eiriksson, and Thorstein Eiriksson
Children: Thorkell Leif
Parents: Erik the Red and Thjodhild