One reason is that, unlike Columbus claiming the entire continent for the king and queen of Spain, Leif and Thorvald Erikson and their companions were only looking for a place to build a farm and ...

Many have claimed to have "discovered" the America's first. From Christopher Columbus, to Leif Erikson, all the way to the first paleoindians who set foot on the continent during the last ice age.

the Norseman Leif Erikson set foot in North America, becoming the first European to do so. Erikson’s travels took him to the coast of what is now Canada in the far northwest Atlantic.

Leif Erikson (also spelled Ericsson, or Eiriksson) was the second of three sons of Erik the Red, who established a settlement in Greenland after he was exiled from Iceland. Leif Erikson's story ...