He Reached the American Continent Centuries Before Columbus. Why Does He Not Receive More Credit?

Leif Erikson's Reported Voyage to Present-Day Canada Was Known to Europeans in Columbus's Time

To the explorers of ice-covered Greenland, it must have seemed like paradise. A truly verdant land of lush meadows watered by free-flowing rivers. Whales and caribou to hunt, nesting birds and wild salmon to catch, grapes and wheat to gather. A warmer climate with more daylight and milder winters.