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    Leifr Eiricsson, sometimes called the Leif Eiricsson Memorial, is statue of Norse explorer Leif Erikson created by American artist Alexander Stirling...
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  • Statue of Leif Erikson may refer to Leif Erikson by John Karl Daniels at Leif Erikson Park, Duluth, Minnesota Leif Erikson: Discoverer of America Leif...
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    Leif Erikson, also known as Leif the Lucky (c. 970s – c. 1018 to 1025), was a Norse explorer who is thought to have been the first European to set foot...
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    Leif Erikson Day is an annual observance that occurs on October 9. It honors Leif Erikson (Old Norse: Leifr Eiríksson), the Norse explorer who, in approximately...
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    Thorfinn Karlsefni (category Scandinavian explorers of North America)
    Thórdarson was an Icelandic explorer. Around the year 1010, he followed Leif Eriksson's route to Vinland in a short-lived attempt to establish a permanent...
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    and view Reykjavík and the surrounding mountains. The statue of explorer Leif Erikson (c.970 – c.1020) by Alexander Stirling Calder in front of the church...
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    Thorfinn Karlsefni (sculpture) (category Statues in Pennsylvania)
    duration of the fair (with a casting of the statue of Leif Erikson by Alexander Stirling Calder at the other entrance). After the fair, the statue of Thorfinn...
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    Nína Sæmundsson (category Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts alumni)
    Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project. Leif Erikson bust (1936), intersection of Fern Dell Drive and Los Feliz Boulevard entrance to Griffith...
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    looters, traders, colonists and mercenaries. To the west, Vikings under Leif Erikson, the heir to Erik the Red, reached North America and set up a short-lived...
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    of Nordic exploration and settlement in North America can be traced back over a millennium. In around AD 1000, the Norwegian explorer, Leif Erikson,...
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    Icelander Leif Erikson landed in L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland to establish a colony. However, the colony did not last long, and much of the fate of the...
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    Siege of Sidon they fought alongside Baldwin I and Ordelafo Faliero, and the siege resulted in an expansion of the Kingdom of Jerusalem. Leif Erikson, an...
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    was inspired by the statue of Leif by American Stirling Calder in Reykjavík, Iceland. Vasco Núñez de Balboa, the Spanish explorer of the Panama Canal region...
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  • Retrieved May 24, 2017. Volta Coffee (April 22, 2017). "Checking in from the Reykjavík March for Science". Twitter. Retrieved May 10, 2021. Pam Wright (April...
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