Biografia de leif ericsson viking

Leif Erikson’s Early Life and Conversion to Christianity

Leif Erikson (spelling variations include Eiriksson, Erikson or Ericson), known as “Leif the Lucky,” was the second of three sons of the famed Norse explorer Erik the Red, who established a settlement in Greenland after being expelled from Iceland around A.D. 980. The date of Leif Erikson’s birth is uncertain, but he is believed to have grown up in Greenland. 

According to the 13th-century Icelandic Eiriks saga (or “Saga of Erik the Red”), Erikson sailed from Greenland to Norway around 1000. On the way, he was believed to have stopped in the Hebrides, where he had a son, Thorgils, with Thorgunna, daughter of a local chief. In Norway, King Olaf I Tryggvason converted Erikson to Christianity, and a year later sent him back to Greenland with a commission to spread the faith among the settlers there.

Erikson’s Voyage to Vinland

Historical accounts differ on the subsequent events. According to the Eiriks saga, Erikson sailed off course on his return to Greenland and landed in North America. He called the region where he landed Vinland after the wild grapes that grew in abundance there and the general fertility of the land. 

Another Icelandic saga, the Groenlendinga saga (or “Saga of the Greenlanders”), which scholars consider more reliable that the Eiriks saga, holds that Leif Erikson heard about Vinland from the Icelandic trader Bjarni Herjulfsson, who had sighted the North American continent from his ship 14 years before Leif’s voyage but not set foot on land.

In addition to uncertainty about the context of Erikson’s arrival in North America, the exact location of

Artist's conception of Norse explorer Leif Erikson's ship  ©Erikson was an Icelandic explorer and probably the first European visitor to North America, 500 years before Christopher Columbus.

Leif Erikson (also spelled Ericsson, or Eiriksson) was the second of three sons of Erik the Red, who established a settlement in Greenland after he was exiled from Iceland. Leif Erikson's story was recorded in several different sagas, but the accounts they give are so different it is impossible to be certain of the details of his life.

He is thought to have visited Norway in around 1000 where he was converted to Christianity by Olaf I, who sent him back to Greenland to convert the settlers there. In one story, on his voyage to Greenland he sailed off-course and arrived in a place he called 'Vinland', because of the abundant grapes growing there, and the general fertility of the land. In another - the Groenlendinga saga - he heard of a land in the west from an Icelandic trader, and went to find it.

The precise identity of Vinland remains uncertain, with various locations on the North American coast identified. In 1963, archaeologists found ruins of a Viking-type settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows, in northern Newfoundland, which correspond to Leif's description of Vinland.

Nun confundir con Leif Erickson , actor estauxunidense.

Leif Erikson (en nórdicu antiguuLeifr Eiríksson), moteyáu L'afortunáu (Leifur heppni) (circa 970, EiríksstaðIr – circa 1020, Brattahlíð y Groenlandia), foi un esplorador viquingu consideráu como unu de los primeros europeos que llegó a América del Norte. El so patronímicu, Erikson, puede escribise tamién como Ericsson, Eiríksson o Ericson. En 2009, el presidente de los Estaos Xuníos, Barack Obama, proclamó al día 9 d'ochobre Día de Leif Erikson.

Posiblemente nacíu n'Islandia, Leif foi'l segundu de los fíos del esplorador norueguErik el Colloráu, quien hacia l'añu 985 fundó'l primer asentamientu viquingu en Groenlandia, pocu dempués de ser exiliáu d'Islandia. En 999 visitó Noruega y foi bautizáu so amparu del rei Olaf Tryggvason, pasando l'iviernu con él. Alredor del añu 1000, empuestu polos rellatu del comerciante Bjarni Herjólfsson, dirixir escontra l'oeste y pasó un iviernu nuna tierra a la que denominó Vinland y que describió como abondosu en salmones y pacionales. El so campamentu constituyiría'l primer asentamientu européu n'América, quinientos años primero que Cristóbal Colón. Créese que foi unu de los primeros qu'afayó'l continente americanu ensin saber lo qu'había descubiertu. El so hermanu Thorvald Eriksson foi'l primer européu en tener contautu con amerindios, y tamién la so primer víctima. El campamentu, Leifsbúðdir, taba allugáu nel estremu norte de la isla de Terranova, posiblemente nel llugar conocíu anguaño como L'Anse aux Meadows y duró namái unos años antes de ser abandonáu, por causes inciertes, seique debíu al clima, a l'agresividá, el pillaje o'l continuu hostigamiento que sufríen los colonizadores per parte de los indíxenes (posiblemente algonquinos).

Primeros años

Leif yera'l fíu de Erik el Colloráu y la so esposa

(970-1020)

Who Was Leif Eriksson?

Born in the 10th century, Norse explorer Leif Eriksson was the second son of Erik the Red, who is credited with settling Greenland. For his part, Eriksson is considered by many to be the first European to reach North America, centuries ahead of Christopher Columbus. However, the details of his voyage are a matter of historical debate, with one version claiming his landing accidental and another that he had sailed there intentionally after learning of the region from earlier explorers. In either case, Eriksson eventually returned to Greenland, where he had been commissioned by Norwegian king Olaf I Tryggvason to spread Christianity and is believed to have died circa 1020. In the early 1960s, the discovery of the ruins of a Viking settlement in Newfoundland lent further weight to accounts of Eriksson’s voyage, and in 1964 the United States Congress authorized the president to proclaim each October 9 as Leif Eriksson Day.

Early Life

Although various accounts exist, the differences in their details often make it difficult to separate fact and legend when discussing the life of Norse explorer Leif Eriksson. He is believed to have been born circa 960–970 A.D., the second of three sons of Erik the Red, who founded the first European settlement on what is now Greenland. As Erik the Red’s father had been banished from Norway and settled in Iceland, it is likely that Leif was born there and raised in Greenland. However, from here the facts become as diverse as the spelling of his name.

Vinland

By most accounts, around the year 1000, Eriksson sailed from Greenland to Norway where he served in the court of King Olaf I Tryggvason, who converted him from Norse paganism to Christianity. Soon thereafter, Olaf commissioned Eriksson to proselytize across Greenland and spread Christianity to the settlers there as well. Although Eriksson would eventually make it back to Greenland, it is the details and motives of his return