L'Anse aux Meadows

Vikings who were led by Leif Ericson, successor to Erik the Red who was an extremely courageous leader, reached to North America before Christopher Columbus set foot in America and they had set up very short lived settlements in present-day L'Anse aux Meadows, and Labrador, which is found in Canada. Viking expansion into continental Europe was very limited due to the fact that their realm was bordered by powerful…

Is it true that Leif Eriksson founded America 500 years before Columbus did? Christopher Columbus “founded” America in 1492, but was he really the first? There has been much controversy on who discovered America first. For many the answer to the question is easy: Christopher Columbus, because that is what we were taught growing up, but for some, the answer is not as easy to answer. Some believe that Leif Eriksson and the Vikings arrived in North America 500 years before Columbus did.…

RELIGIOUS INFLUENCE (PERSPECTIVE) Like many other civilisations throughout the historical timeline, Vikings also had their own beliefs and religious practices-which they worshipped more than one kind of god until the official conversion of Christianity happened at the era of 1000CE. Evidences from the collection of medieval Icelandic prose recorded inside the ‘Viking sagas’, suggested that Vikings had also faith in mythical creatures and immortal souls. Each god in Vikings was assigned for…

On Oct. 12, 1492 Columbus found an island with his three ships. This happened after about a two month voyage on his way to the West, coming from Spain. Columbus thought that they people he ran into were not so wealthy, he thought they were poor inside and out. He saw them as neither white nor black. The poor people did not know what weapons were when Columbus had showed them. Columbus thought that these people he had run into looked great as servants. He thought of this because he noticed…