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Minnesota Historia talks to 107-year-old Lilly Haldorson, who remembers the day the Leif Erikson ...
We spent two days in Reykjavik, a quaint little town of 245,000 people in the greater area, where most of Iceland's population resides. A walking tour brought us up to the Hallgrímskirkja Lutheran ...
The parade route winds through the streets of Ballard, starting at N.W. 62nd Street and 24th Ave. N.W., then proceeds south on 24th Ave. N.W. to N.W. Market Street.
Activities begin at 11:00 a.m. across the neighborhood, including music at Bergen Place Park, an open house at the Leif Erikson Lodge, a luncheon at the National Nordic Museum (now sold out), and ...
Donald Trump gets Christopher Pyne’s endorsement to take over Greenland. But what of the Viking from Greenland who arrived in America more than 1200 years ago?
The real Leif Erikson and Freydis Eiríksdóttir did travel to the “Golden Land” but not together – Freydis arrived there after Leif, who is credited with the discovery of North America.
Leif Segerstam, a Finnish conductor and composer whose remarkable output — 371 symphonies in all — was as mysterious as his pronouncements about them, died on Oct. 9 in Helsinki. He was 80.
The Leif Erikson Day meme pops up annually on October 9, often referencing an episode of SpongeBob Squarepants. Popular awareness of the holiday skyrocketed after 2001, when SpongeBob woke up and ...
With their patron dead, the surviving soldiers had to flee. In front of them lay their only escape route: the vast deserts of what is now Iraq. Beyond these lay the Black Sea, and safety.
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A Norse explorer from Iceland, Leif Erikson is believed to be the first European to reach North America around 1000 A.D. This is his story. In approximately 1000 C.E., Norse explorer Leif Erikson ...