After they sheltered their ship in a sheltered ... Vinland housed a permanent Viking settlement. By the time the archeologists weighed in, however, the idea of Leif Erikson landing in America ...

Leif Erikson (also spelled Ericsson ... In 1963, archaeologists found ruins of a Viking-type settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows, in northern Newfoundland, which correspond to Leif's description ...

While Leif Eriksson is the Viking name most familiar to Americans ... Freydis demands that the Icelanders hand over their larger ship for the journey home. She goads her husband and followers ...