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He reached the Americas centuries before Columbus. Why doesn’t he get more credit?

Washington Post World Monday 12 October 2026, 11:20 UTC By Matthew Brown 1 min read
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For the explorers from ice-covered Greenland, it must have seemed a paradise. A genuinely green land of lush meadows irrigated by free-flowing rivers. Whales and caribou to hunt, nesting birds and wild salmon to catch, grapes and wheat to gather.

For the explorers from ice-covered Greenland, it must have seemed a paradise. A genuinely green land of lush meadows irrigated 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. Democracy Dies in Darkness He reached the Americas centuries before Columbus. Why doesn’t he get more credit? Accounts of Leif Erikson’s voyage to present-day Canada were known to Europeans in Christopher Columbus’s time. 11 min
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