LEIF ERIKSON
From the time you were really little, you probably learned that Christopher Columbus discovered America in 1492. Modern historians believe that a Viking explorer named Leif Erickson was the first European to reach North America. The Vikings were searching for land to settle on and they are now known to have established a settlement in Newfoundland, Canada, five hundred years before Columbus. Watch both of the videos below and then go to Hiset Academy.