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| | Leif Ericson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | A statue of Leif near the Minnesota State Capitol in St. |
 | | It is believed that Leif was born around 980 in Iceland, the second son of Erik the Red (Old Norse: Eiríkr rauði), a Norwegian-Icelandic outlaw, himself the son of another Norwegian outlaw, Þorvaldr Ásvaldsson. |
 | | Research done in the 1950s and 1960s by explorer Helge Ingstad and his wife, archaeologist Anne Stine, strongly suggests that the settlement of Leif Ericson and his party in Vínland was actually the tip of Newfoundland later known as L'Anse aux Meadows. |
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