Even in this woke age, the national holiday celebrating Leif Erikson’s landing in Newfoundland (which is why the day is also celebrated in Canada) hasn’t stirred anything like the controversy ...

Leif Erikson day is observed on Oct. 9 each year, though it is not a federal holiday. It commemorates the first recorded Nordic person to have come to North America. Some speculated that he even ...

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 ...

The annual 5k fun run and Norwegian Heritage Day celebration will be held this weekend, March 22, at the Leif Erikson Lodge ...

Many have claimed to have "discovered" the America's first. From Christopher Columbus, to Leif Erikson, all the way to the first paleoindians who set foot on the continent during the last ice age.