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	Leif Eriksson - MSN Encarta
		Leif Erkisson’s story was recorded by several Icelandic writers in the 13th and 14th centuries, but the accounts which they give differ so greatly that it is not possible to be certain of the details of Leif’s career.
		Because of the grapes and the land’s fertility, Leif called the land Vinland (or Wineland).
		Leif lent his ship to his brother Thorvald for further exploration of Vinland where, according to some sagas, Thorvald was killed by Native Americans.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761558409/Eriksson_Leif.html (482 words)

	Leif Eriksson
		Leif Eriksson is the first in our list of Explorers of the Millennium.
		Leif went with his father to Greenland and lived there until 1000.
		As Leif was sailing back to Greenland, he was blown off course and he ended up in North America instead of Greenland.
	library.thinkquest.org /4034/ericson.html (224 words)

	Leif Eriksson
		Leif was born about 980, no one knows where exactly, but most expert’s thinks he was born in Iceland.
		Leif was around 9 years old at the time.
		Leif brought a priest to Greenland and built a church.
	www.mortenmeyer.com /NoticeBoard/leif_eriksson.htm (238 words)

	Leif Ericsson
		Young Leif, his son, kept staring at the huge iceberg while they slowly and carefully rowed past it in their Viking ship.
		Leif grew to be a large and imposing man, one known for his fair judgment and honesty.
		Leif and his men stayed there for the winter, and were taught the foundations of Christianity.
	www.viking.no /e/people/leif/e-leiv.htm (766 words)

	Leif Eriksson (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Leif Eriksson, ein Wikinger, kam vor über 1000 Jahren mit nur fünfunddreißig Männern und einem Schiff auf den nordamerikanischen Kontinent.
		Leif Eriksson ist vermutlich zwischen 970 und 980 nach Christus in Island geboren.
		Leif wurde nach Norwegen gesandt, damit ihm nicht nur beigebracht wurde wie man Runen liest und schreibt, sondern auch um die keltische und die russische Sprache sprechen zu lernen und um ein guter Kaufmann zu werden.
	www.edhelper.com /ReadingComprehension_46_58.html (318 words)

	Leif Eriksson
		Leif Eriksson was born in 960 A.D. in Iceland.
		Leif was the son of the famous explorer, Erik the Red.
		Leif and around twenty other men were on a voyage back to Greenland from Norway when they got caught in a storm and accidentally ended up near what is now Canada.
	bg016.k12.sd.us /Explorers/leif_eriksson.htm (305 words)

	The Norwegian Connection - Leif Eriksson
		Leif Eriksson was born in Iceland sometime around 960 A.D..
		Leif Eriksson set sail with a crew of 34 men from Greenland in the year 1000 A.D..
		Leif Eriksson was famous a century ago, then forgotten until historians became interested in Viking exploration and the stories in the Icelandic sagas.
	www.celticattic.com /contact_us/norwegian_connection/leif_eriksson.htm (1692 words)

	Vikings & their Gods - Leif Eriksson
		Leif, a sailor like Eric the Red, voyaged from Greenland, where he was living with his father, to Norway, the homeland of his family, shortly before 1000.
		Leif Eriksson, son of Norse explorer Eric the Red, led the first European expedition to North America around AD 1000, according to folk legend.
		On his return journey, Leif came upon a wrecked trading vessel whose crew he rescued; for this deed he received the entire rich cargo and the nickname Leif the Lucky.
	www.angelfire.com /realm/shades/vikings/leiferiks.htm (385 words)

	BBC - History - Leif Erikson (11th century)
		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 was recorded in several different sagas, but the accounts they give are so different it is impossible to be certain of the details of his life.
		He is thought to have visited Norway in around 1000 where he was converted to Christianity by King Olaf I, who sent him back to Greenland to convert the settlers there.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/historic_figures/erikson_leif.shtml (233 words)

	LMF: NFO/MCO 'What's that climbing in those trees?' Leif asked. 'Forest Cats,' answered the king.
		As Leif's father, Erik the Red, had been exiled from Norway and Iceland, he was unable to go himself, and sent his son instead.
		Leif was supposed to set up a business relationship with the Norwegians, so that Norwegian trading ships would bring wood and grain to Greenland.
		Leif and his Vikings landed near Boston, which is just the area from which the Maine Coon originates.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/L_P_swepston/leif.htm (1123 words)

	Leif Eriksson
		Leif Eriksson wurde etwa 970 als Sohn Eriks des Roten und als Enkel von Thorvald Asvaldsson auf Island geboren.
		Leifs Bruder startete weitere Expeditionen, geriet jedoch mit den Ureinwohnern, welche die Nordmänner "Skraelinger" nannten, in Konflikt und starb an einer Pfeilverletzung.
		Leif Eriksson, rekonstruiertes Porträt (auf Deutsch) / Leif Ericsson, reconstructed portrait (auf Englisch)
	www.weblexikon.de /Leif_Eriksson.html (633 words)

	Leif Ericson Summary
		Leif Ericson was born in Iceland, the son of Eric the Red.
		Leif was the eldest of four children, all destined to travel to North America, born to Erik the Red.
		Leif Ericson Viking Ship LEVS is a 501(c) 3 nonprofit educational organization dedicated to the study, education and promotion of the fact that Leif Ericson was the first European to set foot upon and explore the North American Continent and of Vikings in general, their times and travels throughout the world.
	www.bookrags.com /Leif_Ericson (1829 words)

	Leif Eriksson: Leif the Lucky by Jim Cornish
		Leif sailed on, through a channel, past a cape and into a bay of shallow water.
		Leif and his crew went ashore and explored a stream that glistened with salmon.
		It is not known when Leif died, but his son Thorkell became the master of a settlement in about 1025, so it is assumed he died sometime before then.
	www.cdli.ca /CITE/v_lief.htm (1709 words)

	Leif Eriksson (c
		Though Leif Eriksson (Old Norse: Leifr Eiriksson) is one of the most famous persons in Western history, little is known about his life except his discovery and exploration of Vinland/America.
		Thus, Leif grew up as the son of the leading lord at the manor farm in the so-called Eastern Settlement together with his brothers Thorvald and Thorstein and his half-sister Freydis.
		Leif's discoveries led to several attempts at settlement, all finally unsuccessful because of the increasing hostility of the indigenous people.
	www.libarts.ucok.edu /history/faculty/roberson/course/1483/suppl/chpII/LeifEriksson.htm (1252 words)

	Leif Eriksson - Encyclopedia.com
		The second son of Erik the Red, he was on his way back from Norway to Greenland, where he had been sent by Olaf I Tryggvason to Christianize the natives (1000), when he sailed off course and landed probably at Nova Scotia, which he called Vinland.
		Eriksson was expecting an update on Rooney's World Cup chances from England doctor Leif Sward who was due to meet his Manchester...
		Eriksson was joined by team doctor Leif Sward and an England physio...
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1B1-369978.html (921 words)

	Leif Eriksson
		Leif Eriksson or Leif the Lucky was born in 975 on Iceland in Ericsstadir, but he grew up on Greenland.
		Leif’s dad Erik the Red was send away from Iceland for 3 year, for killing two of his neighbors.
		Leif Eriksson even has his own day; the 9th of October is Leif Eriksson Day it’s healed in honor for Leif for when he discovered Vinland (’’The New World’’).
	www.mimersbrunn.se /arbeten/8370.asp (925 words)

	Leif Eriksson
		Fifteen years later, Leif Eriksson decided to explore the land Bjarni had seen.
		One house had a fireplace of exactly the same design as that on Leif Eriksson's farm on Greenland.
		Leif Eriksson Day is an American observance, honoring Leif Eriksson as the first Europeans known to have set foot on North American soil.
	skandland.com /vikingsleif.htm (548 words)

	Leif Eriksson Monuments Website
		This website shows the monuments erected all over the world to honor Leif Eriksson and the other Vikings, who were the first Europeans to set foot on North America.
		Eiríkur's son Leifur Eiríksson (in English literature more commonly known als Leif Eriksson, or Leif the Lucky), born around 960 A.D., had heard of the accounts of the chance sighting of land to the west of Greenland by the Icelandic trader Bjarni Herjólfsson in 986.
		Added: 3 Eriksson monuments in Keflavik, Cambridge and Waltham; updated those in Reykjavik, Eiríksstaðir, and Boston; concerning the monuments for Guðríður and Snorri the one in Laugarbrekka updated, and one new monument for Þorfinnur Karlsefni in Reykjavik added.
	leiferiksson.vanderkrogt.net /introduction.html (626 words)

	Viking Leif Eriksson Action Figure
		Leif Eriksson, known as Leif the Lucky, was the first European known to visit North America, long before Columbus made his famous voyage.
		Leif was a Viking who grew up in Greenland, where his father, Erik the Red, had started a colony in 982.
		Leif and his men may have sailed as far south as Cape Cod before returning to Greenland.
	www.shakespearesden.com /1306.html (145 words)

	Leif Eriksson
		His son, Leif Eriksson, was most likely born in Greenland (but some say Iceland); his date of birth is uncertain.
		Some experts believe that Eriksson’s ship was blown off course in a storm and he unwittingly ended up on the shores of North America.
		Eriksson and his crew wintered in Vinland, then returned to Greenland in 1001.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h435.html (548 words)

	Leif Eriksson: Leif the Lucky by Jim Cornish
		isappointed, Leif and his men sailed south and west and within days spotted a wooded shoreline that rose gently from the sea.
		Again, Leif named the land according to its nature and called it Markland, meaning "land covered with wood".
		hen spring came, Leif and his crew set sail from Vinland with the hold of their ship filled with the riches of this new land.
	www.stemnet.nf.ca /CITE/v_lief.htm (1709 words)

	Leif Eriksson - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Eriksson sailed to North America at the end...
		Eriksson, Leif: painting of Leif Eriksson sighting Newfoundland
		Leifur Eiriksson * Leif Erikson * Leif Ericsson * Leif Eriksson * Leif Erickson * Leiv Eiriksson * Leiv Eriksson
	encarta.msn.com /Leif_Eriksson.html (151 words)

	Leif Eriksson
		Leif Eriksson was a early explorer along with some others.
		Eriksson and men spent their winter in vinland.
		on their return trip they rescued 15 members of a shipwrek.Eric the red died soon after Leif’s return.His brother was killed by a Indian made no maps.
	www.freewebs.com /barretch (83 words)

	Leif Eriksson
		Leif Eriksson was born in Iceland a long time ago.
		When Eriksson was a boy, his father set off in a ship to explore.
		Today people think that Eriksson actually landed in Canada, along the coast of Newfoundland.
	www.eduplace.com /kids/socsci/de/books/bka/biographies/bk_template.jsp?name=erikssonl&bk=bka (104 words)

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		LEIF ERICSSON Discoverer of America (Embassy of Iceland - Updated June 1997).
		Institutionen för fysik, avdelningen för kvantkemi, Leif Axel...
	www.angelfire.com /ab8/met7/search5bcf.html (345 words)

	Amazon.com: Before Columbus: The Leif Eriksson Expedition: A True Adventure (Landmark Books): Books: Elizabeth Cody ...
		Grade 3-5-This account of Eriksson's life and explorations relies heavily on the use of imaginary incidents, thoughts, feelings, and dialogue.
		The author's technique of re-creation gives the book a flavor more like that of a historical novel than a biography or history and is reminiscent of the style of biography writing prevalent in the 1940s and 1950s.
		Both Leif and his explorer father, Erik the Red, are presented as bold, vivid characters who graduated from pillaging nearby villages and communities to exploring uncharted lands across the Atlantic, lands that became Markland, Helluland, and Vinland.
	www.amazon.com /Before-Columbus-Eriksson-Expedition-Adventure/dp/0375813470 (713 words)

	The norse settlers in Greenland - about project Leif 2000
		In the year 1000 A.D., the legendary Greenlander Leif Eriksson, son of Eric the Red, set his course westward from his parental home at Brattahlid in Southgreenland and discovered Vinland - today better known as Newfoundland, North America.
		In the year 1000 A.D., the norse Greenland and Iceland became christianized.
		It has later been restructured to focus on the norse history in Greenland while pages about the festival events July 2000 now are available in the Festival Archive.
	www.greenland-guide.gl /leif2000/project.htm (248 words)

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	Institutionen för fysik, avdelningen för kvantkemi, Leif Axel Eriksson
		S.D. Wetmore, R.J. Boyd and L.A. Eriksson, J. Phys.
		L.A. Eriksson, F. Himo, P.E.M. Siegbahn and G.T. Babcock, J. Phys.
		The Calculation of NMR and EPR Spectroscopy Parameters Using Density Functional Theory, V.G. Malkin, O.L. Malkina, L.A. Eriksson and D.R. Salahub, in Modern Density Functional Theory: A Tool for Chemistry; Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Vol.
	www.kvac.uu.se /swe/personal/LeifEriksson.html (229 words)

	RandomHouse.ca \| Books \| Before Columbus: The Leif Eriksson Expedition: A True Adventure by Elizabeth Cody Kimmel
		Five hundred years before Columbus, a young Viking named Leif Eriksson crossed the Atlantic and became the first known European to set foot in North America.
		The tale of the crossing and the brief Viking settlement in North America has been passed down for a thousand years.
		Now, Elizabeth Cody Kimmel retells it to a new audience, painting a vivid picture of what Eriksson might have experienced on his great Viking expedition.
	www.randomhouse.ca /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780375913471 (127 words)

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