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• Leif Ericson
  Leif Ericson

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  Ericson, Leif.
• Ericson, Leif
  Ericson, Leif

  A Norwegian explorer of about the year 1000. He is said to have discovered a place in North America called Vinland. Several locations are possible for Vinland, including the Canadian province of Newfoundland and New England.

Leif Ericson

American  

noun

1. Ericson, Leif.

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Leif Ericson British  

/ ˈliːf ˈɛrɪksən /

noun

1. See Ericson

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Ericson, Leif Cultural  

1. A Norwegian explorer of about the year 1000. He is said to have discovered a place in North America called Vinland. Several locations are possible for Vinland, including the Canadian province of Newfoundland and New England.

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Ericson, rather than Christopher Columbus, is sometimes called the European discoverer of America. His discovery, however, is not indisputably documented, as the discovery of Columbus is. Also, Ericson's voyages, unlike the voyages of Columbus, did not result in continuous colonization.

Example Sentences

He did it in 33.5 hours in a single-seat, single-engine monoplane, thus making him a kind of 20th-century Leif Ericson, an aeronautical Magellan, one of the earliest beacons of the age of aviation.

From New York Times • Jan. 16, 2018

In time, the seed of history that Leif Ericson had planted bore fruit.

From Time Magazine Archive

She was the 18,673-ton Oslofjord, new $3,000,000 flagship of the Norwegian America Line, on her maiden voyage to the land Norse Leif Ericson previewed some 938 years earlier.

From Time Magazine Archive

The World of Carl Sandburg, capably peopled by Bette Davis and Leif Ericson, is a slightly patronizing domain at times, but one studded with the virtues of democratic faith.

From Time Magazine Archive

In his northern journey, too, some vague and formless traditions may have reached the explorer’s ear of the voyages of Leif Ericson and Thorfinn Karlsefne, and of the coasts of Markland and Vinland.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" by Various