What is one accomplishment Leif Ericson (viking) made?

Question: What is one accomplishment Leif Ericson (viking) made!?

And/Or one interesting fact about him!?!?

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Besides being my ancestor!? (LOL!.!. that's if you ask my mom's family LOL)

He is supposed to have been the first recorded European to "discover" America!.!. 500 years before Colombus!.

But Colombus DID "discover America" too, because 1) the vikings weren't really that friendly with the rest of Europe and 2) in 500 years the knowledge had been "forgotten" and records lost!.!. so in COlumbus's time they really honestly didn't know about America

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Son of Eric the Red, he is credited with the discovery of Newfoundland, which he originally called Vinland or "land of vines!."

Like Columbus, he actually got nowhere near the continental United States, Mexico or Canada!.Www@QuestionHome@Com