Leif Eriksson - The First European in North America
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- Опубліковано 9 вер 2024
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Thanks to a rhyme learned in grade school, many people believe that Columbus first discovered America in 1492. But this Viking Cruises® video chronicles how, nearly 500 years before the Italian explorer sailed the ocean blue, a 25-year-old Norse navigator named Leif Eriksson and a crew of 35 men set sail to explore the seas west of Greenland. When Eriksson arrived on the shores of what he called “Vinland,” he became the first European to set foot in North America. Narrated by Viking Cruises Sr. Vice President Karine Hagen, this short film traces Eriksson’s history and his voyage into immortality. The son of intrepid Viking explorer Erik the Red, Eriksson led the historic journey from Greenland to North America through uncharted waters without a compass. Although the discovery was celebrated for centuries in Norse legend and stories, many doubted the accuracy of those accounts. Doubts about Eriksson’s discovery were finally dispelled in 1960, when modern-day explorers Helge and Anne Ingstad identified a Norse settlement located at the northern tip of Newfoundland that dates back to the exact time of Eriksson’s voyage. In the United States, the achievement of the Viking explorer with adventure and exploration in his blood is commemorated every year on October 9th. At Viking Cruises, we cherish our Viking heritage and connection to seafaring visionaries like Leif Eriksson.
Karine Hagen of Viking River Cruises is your host.
I am from center Vinland(Newfoundland) and I have found viking ruins near our local River, there is a rock structure that was once a house and all kinds of artifact s that no one has ever mentioned or discovered
make a video about it then
Report your find to the Antiquities Authority or whatever they call it in Canada.
Yeah I wanna see it
Well, any updates?
oh that's cool
Happy Leif Ericcson Day!! Hinga Dinga Durgin!
ERIKSSON
Kippus
Hinga dinga durgin
The cheese is done 🌸
Text desire step it up
The norse settlement in newfoundland was discovered in the 60s. I was in 5th grade in 2002 and they where still teaching columbus, 2 years later in 7th grade was the first time id ever heard of erikson.
No kidding, I learn about him because of Time Warp Trio.
Erikson failed big time and didn't conquer anything
@MarioSanders-rm8yr I don't think anyone implied or suggested conquering. You Did!
When you’re so cool, that you discover a continent in the year 1000, legendary
lol
Discover,maybe for europeans😢
@@chestersabajo5527Who else discovered Europe then?
@@misterpotato427 the Africans
"I discovered North America before it was cool"
p.s. HAPPY LEIF ERIKSSON DAY!
dumbass native Americans discovered america
Ismael Carucha
Someone got their feelings hurt
@@ismaelcarucha5573 A year late but that technically is also incorrect, the first settelers in the Americas crossed a landbrige across the Behring strait during the last iceage some 11.000 - 12.000 years ago. They wouldnt have been called Native Americans when they first came there. So the Americas was technically discovered by the ancient people who lived in what we now call Siberia.
@@M_Lund no wonder Russia salty
Leifur heppni Eiríksson - Leif the lucky (980-1020) was born in Iceland. Leifur was a son of Eiríkur rauði - Eric the red and is wife Þórhildur - Thorhild. Eric saild from Norway to Iceland and settled down for few years.
With his parents and two brothers Þorvaldur and Þorsteinn, Leif sailed from Iceland to Greenland.
Around 1000 he sailed from Greenland to Helluland/Baffinsland. Then to Markland/Labrador and Vínland/Newfoundland (island)
Vinland Saga is a genius anime/manga and this proves it.
well I mean it’s just an anime based of the writings I would assume I’ve never seen the anime or read the saga but I would assume that they the anime would portray the story
@@andyballler the anime/manga doesn't portray the story accurately. Most of it r just fiction and it focuses more on thorfinn who traveled with Leif. It truly is a masterpiece I highly recommend it to you
It’s way to “anime-y” imo. They could’ve had a hit show just following the actual history and removing the common anime tropes like characters lengthily admiring and dissecting their opponents attacks in the middle of what’s supposed to be an intense fight of life and death. They really think Vikings were cheerifully waving to the guy who just sliced there limb off in an ambush and wishing to meet again in battle? Lmao
Nah, it's hinga dinga durgen
Doubts about Eriksson's discovery were finally dispelled in 1960
Lol
Hinga Dinga Durgen!
Raf Angelo yes!
Classic
Raf Angelo *H I N G A D I N G A D U R G E N*
Happy Leif Erickson day
hey you better watch your mouth mr
I’m from Minnesota and we got a Leif Erickson statue on our capitol steps. And obviously we named our nfl team the Vikings
@Smoking_Phat_Blunts u can go into the st.lawrence river and that brings u into the Great Lakes and there all connected and it would lead u into Minnesota’s north shore
@@ballsonyourmomschin1781 But they would have had to travel upriver all the way, not to mention portaging around Niagara Falls.
@@Strongboy1770 wdym up stream it’s not a river it’s like 1,500 miles connected by the worlds biggest lakes
@@ballsonyourmomschin1781 The St. Lawrence is a river, from Lake Ontario to its mouth on the Atlantic Ocean, and it gets very cold there in winter. The whole system had to be artificially widened so ocean-going ships could make it to and from Minnesota.
@@Strongboy1770 ya but modern freighter barges are much larger than old wooden ships
Been watching Vikings: Valhalla and while it’s not quite as memorable as Vikings, I’m still loving it and am addicted. I get that it’s probably not super accurate historic wise but still a good show imo
Same boat, ship as you! Vikings has outside elements that majority of foreigners agree with. How ever I’m fascinated by Erik.
Excellent summary of our heritage and Scandinavian legacy.
Skål brother. Nice to see another of his decendants in the wild :)
SpongeBob SquarePants taught me about Leif Erickson… and then Viking Valhalla..
Along with Ragnar Lothbrok.. and Rollo… lol king of Francis.. 👑 🇫🇷
History was my FAVORITE too.. i did very well with it.
But seeing that stuff is what made me remember what I learned.. (I dumped most of the knowledge I guess)
😂
That awkward moment when you first knew about this guy through Spongebob.
Yeah, but for me I got more interested in Leif Erikson after I watched Vinland Saga.
It is sad when a yellow drawing of a sea sponge is the main reason you are popular. :(
@@ksya473 exactly
@Smoking_Phat_Doobies .
true
Imagine if Scandanavia had continued it's attempts to establish colonies past Greenland. It would've been very difficult, but we could've had colonies in the Americas perhaps 400+ years earlier, and since there wasn't THAT big of a technological gap yet, the natives could've adopted European technology and adapted it. Albeit diseases would still be a big issue.
It was to difficult because there was no nation state sponsoring there voyage or a writing system.
They would've had more resistance to those diseases oddly, if the Norse had stayed.
@@JuanLopez-rl7rywhy do historians and other people say the norse didn't have a wiring system. They did, it's part of why we know they were in the Americas in the first place.
@@JuanLopez-rl7rythey had runes as their writing system
I'm American and although most people I know are aware that Leif Eriksson was first, we do still celebrate Columbus' Day in the US. I'm pretty sure it's a federal holiday, schools and banks and the like are all closed for it. I've only been to Canada twice though, so I can't say whether or not they celebrate an Eriksson day. That'd be cool if they did, though.
+Patrick Loftus, President Reagan made Leif Eriksson Day an official holiday. It's catching on very slowly.
Are you sure he was first because there were Native people here when Leif Ericsson came here.
Patrick Loftus we do , in my city we have a park named after him
@Martha only one bigger Problem, It is not a Lie. Many Historians (European) doubted his travels because of lack of evidence and Ambiguous Maps however this is because mistranslations made historians think he landed in Boston or Philadelphia when In reality he landed in Canada, which is where evidence was found of his arrival. Historians discredited him because he didn't contribute much to anything but he still holds the title.
@Martha 🤷look it up friend 👍
This can no longer be denied
Who’s here from Vinland saga ?
Me
I love history so much!
I hate history I am doing my school that is the only reason I am watching this it is so boring
@@kiarawienand8476 bro wdym its very interesting
@@kiarawienand8476 so sad
More important than the Past, is the Present, to make a new Future. This comes from someone who use to have History as the favourite subject ❤️🧘♂️☀️
I recommend everyone to read the Manga/Comic Vinland Saga.
It has amazing art and story following the true source.
My closest relevant match is a Icelandic burial from 935AD, he was a Danish Celtic Viking, we share 183.5cM in total, with the longest uninterrupted sequence is 23.97cM, if they were alive right now we would be at closest half-first cousins. At over 1000 years distance in reality, and we still share this amount of DNA they are 99% m great... grandparent or great....uncle.
Vinland saga !!
Yep
guys Leif Erikson is different. he didn’t meet any natives. he didn’t connect with anyone. he just stumbled across it and stayed there. colombia actually met people and connected them genetically
Columbus was a clown pos
FACTS! 💯
>Colombia
Who's Colombia and when did she sail in the New World
CoLOmBia killed native
On the contrary, it was because of “hostile interactions” with the locals that the Vikings left. At that time they had no technological advantages over the natives ( bows and arrows, spears etc.) and there were a lot more natives.
The reason why we say that Columbus discovered America is that, until then, all previous visitors had no notion of cosmography and didn’t understand where they had arrived. The Vikings might have arrived in New Foundland & further but they didn’t understand that was another continent nor did they reveal their finding to the rest of the World. Before you jump in to say that Columbus confused America with Asia you should be aware that it was his cartographer, Juan de la Cosa (sorry, not Vespucci, he learned this from de la Cosa) who realized that the new lands were indeed another continent, a fact that Columbus had to grudgingly accept in the end because all his promises he had made to the Crown and investors could not be honored.
Actually they did know it was another continent unlike Columbus they never mistaked it for Asia or any other place like Columbus.
It's why they called it Vinland cause they did actually know it was another continent.
They did tell the other nordic people about it but unlike the Spanish they didn't try to take over the continent
@@gamerguy6665 Or maybe they didn't have the technology for that at that time.
Vikings did consider it new land and among them they called it Vinland.
@@herobrineapril8451 And nobody else in the World heard about it nor did they understand that they had reached a new continent, if they did. So pretty irrelevant. Sorry
@@StuartMedinaMiltimore Relevancy is relative, just because it wasn't widely known by the whole world doesn't negate the feat that part of Europe was able to journey to the new world in the 1000's.
It is cool about the Vikings
That the Vikings are so awesome
I'm a viking and I can aprove.
Im a Viking from sweden
I am in 5th grade and I am learning this
Samuel Gebremedhin same
You should
you must be in 7th or 8th grade now lol
Hey everybody it’s a Leif Erickson day!!!
Jacob Gaming HINGA DINGA DURGEN
HINGA DINGA DLERGEN
There is a monument to Erickson in New Rochelle, New York. ☀️🐺🌙🐺
How about no
@Smoking_Phat_Blunts Lol..Sorry but there is not a shred of evidence for that propaganda..
They need to start teaching this in school
Additionally, the first people from the Indigenous groups in Lappland to come to North America were as indentured people being colonized and assimilated into Swede society, and were removed to North America during the establishment of the Tobacco & Fur Trade between the Algonquian peoples and the Swedish crown. During which time they learned to speak the Algonquian tongues of the region and served as translators during later arrivals of Dutch & English who attempted to speak and negotiate with the Algonquian peoples.
The reason why we prefer Columbus over Eriksson is because the continents didn’t know about each other before Columbus at least Western Europe didn’t know and neither did the Middle East.
Well said
@@JuanLopez-rl7ry thank you
Greenland attractive place to live. People didn't know about it was true new land
Hello Elie, how are things going with you?
Happy leif Eriksson day
HINGA DINGA DURGEN
We were taught about Leif Erikson...even in the late 70s/early 80s...but he didn't stay...so Columbus was still treated as though he actually did something...🤔🤷♂️
Well Columbus might not have been the first one to discover America but the second Leader to discover it. And the way he discovered America is also Unique. Just because he wasn't the very first one, it's still impressive.
I call him Leader because Erikson and Columbus both weren't alone. It's not their full work. They both had teams so actually there were many more people involved but yk because i dont want to leave them out i call Columbus leader. Nothing but trying to involve the Crew
Thanks for the nice Video i found it very intresstant
A Belated "Happy Leif Erikson" day! 😅🙌🇮🇳
That wouldn't last very long either because as it truns out, there were already many other nations doing trade with the North and South American locals just as when Lief Erikson was learning to walk.
Heres a fun fact you can chew on, Native American/Indigenous American day is on June 21st here in Canada. 😁😆🤣
@@Smokin_Phat_Dabs Yeah that makes sense. I come from India & we are mostly taught that "Vasco Da Gama" established European Trade with India. While in reality we were already trading with the West long back since the times of the Silk Route. 😂🙌
Nice to hear a modern Scandi interpretation of Leifr's name, but I wonder how Leif Erikson was pronounced in Old Norse? I have 4 matches with Viking graves in Iceland and Greenland from the 10th Century, the Vikings only settled Greenland in the 980s. As with everything I'd have to pay a website to unlock other matches, they do say they're genetic distance 4 and below though. Is there an academic study of Leif's DNA?
dolphins discovered america before everyone else
Bacteria.
@@tuxedosteve1904 Stone
Squeaks and eats fish.
🐬🐬🐬
No, snow and rain did.
and prine madoc welsh prince landed in alabama in 1170 with a small settlement then went back wih more welsh
So spanish , genovese and portuguese explorers had know of that old nord legend ? , They knew There's a land beyond pilars of Hércules by The vikings 😮🎉
I Just Made A Video Called "Who Discovered America Before Columbus?" And It Seems Like You Already Uploaded A Video Somewhat Similiar.
*HINGA DINGA DURGAN*
i only know him from vinland saga i never thought he was this cool
Who came after Vikings Valhalla S1 ?
I don't think Leif could be called a viking. I don't think he ever raided anything.
Lord Erik
Vikings weren't just raiders. They were traders as well.
*NORSEMEN
What about the Irish monk Brendan?
Let's Go Brendan
*Hinga Dinga Durgen*
wait that's a real holiday ( Oh I thought SpongeBob made it up)
*LOL!!!* The sad reality is we have idiots in the human genepool learning history from cartoons 🤦🏾♂️
@@Smokin_Phat_Dabs yeah honestly I don't really think he was that famous then Christopher Columbus in my opinion
And it has always including his holiday isn't really that famous as Columbus Day
@@changsiah2 A lot of us indigenous American/Native American sees Columbus as an invader who ruined a good thing for everybody. Well before Columbus made landfall, there was a lot of trade with other nations going on already. The Polynesians is one such example and so is Zheng He from 1421. Zhang dumpped a lot of people on one of those voyages and left them in America.
@@Smokin_Phat_Dabs despite I respect Christopher Columbus yeah there's a lot of weird history or calendars about him finding America but not
@@changsiah2 You respect a slave trader? Wow! Just wow. 🤦🏾♂️
I never heard of this person, until I watch Time Warp Trio. 😊
There should be a movie or tv series about Leif Erickson also this was before the diseases that killed off most of the natives
Yes that would be awesome, im going to even name my son Leif
You guys should read Vinland Saga.
I have to give props to you for pronouncing Leif Eriksson correctly. Most non-Scandinavian speakers usually pronounces Leif, Leaf instead, which is wrong.
EDIT: Yeah you are pronouncing everything correctly, are the narrator Norwegian with a great english accent or English with a great Norwegian accent? Sounds Norwegian when pronouncing Leif Eriksson and Vinland.
inansoey
@@nina23cw Um, what?
*INDO-EUROPEAN PRIDE WORLDWIDE*
Who else has to watch this for school.
nice
there is a statue of Leif Eriksson in the Boston commons I think
Its just a short hop to vinland
Am proud of carrying his name
@Smoking_Phat_Doobies you really think I changed my profile pic to say this? Lmao
History. Love it. Archived.
I’m related to Leif Erickson 😃
Claim some islands
AMAZING !
I wonder how much more I have to relearn, I wonder what else I was lied about.
Everything humans are rocks
No one lied to you. Columbus was on the forefront of massive European colonization of the Americas. Personally, I have no problem with that. I am white, and I live in the United States. If you think I am evil, that is your problem.
At least Columbus' discovery was what led to the massive colonization of the continent by the europeans. The Norse never established foothold there for long and no other europeans were interested to colonize it for centuries aftewards that we know of. It was still thanks (heheh) to Columbus that America is a thing now.
Im sure there were many more Before Erik the Red and many far ages long before
I learned about this gent and fourth grade. However, I never hear about him. Why is that?
Money. A lot of people got rich off of that one lie about Columbus being the "first" to America...hell, they even made a movie and called it "1492".
oh just a viking🌸✝️
sweet
pretty interesting👍👍👍👍
they had a compass
Wow I love the video
im watching this from school
same
Did they mention Leif was born in Iceland?
No, they didn't. It sounds as if he was either Norwegian (which he wasn't) or from Greenland (which he wasn't either). He was definately Icelandic since he was born in Iceland, had an Icelandic mother and moved to Greenland with his family.
No, not before king Haakon Haakonsen, about 200 years later.
IS0T0P3_90 Iceland was actually independent, it was the Icelandic commonwealth at the time. After years of civil war, where chieftains fought for control over Iceland, they later agreed to accept the sovereignty of Norway and established a union with the Norwegian monarchy in 1262.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_Commonwealth
We don't know exactly where he was born they only assume
He was norwegian, but most likely born in Iceland.
Mauritius😎💤
Hinga dinga durgen!
I approve this video
I watched this in class
why am I on this I should be watching danky doodle memes
The real Discoverer of America is Leif Ericsson 👍😀!
You wanna bet?
it's actually Gunnbjörn Ulfssonr but okie
It’s so cool
Take that Columbus!
Heres the real kicker. All though the Viking were without a doubt in America *before* Columbus they were not the first, not even close.
@@Smokin_Phat_Dabs I know, first there were the archaics and then the red men.
My step dad is related to Leif Ericson so this is cool to learn.
drawingVirtuoso productions Yeah everyone from Island are related
Fun fact:
When Leif Erikson first came to north america, Chuck Norris was waiting for him there
Happy Bert No, FedEx was.
Chuck Norris doesn't wait.
One of the crew not Leif would have been the first off the ship
Hail the Gods and Goddesses!
Leif Erikson was catholic tho
@@adrian7856 Leif Erikson was Christian but his father Erik the Red was a Norse Paganist. The Vikings often adopted other cultural beliefs into their own which made them more progressive than most at the time. There's a story about how Erik actually funded a church to be built in Greenland for his son (Brattahlid).
There is no God but God and Muhammad was not His prophet.
THIS IS SETH BY THE WAY
*_hinga dinga durgen!_*
Happy Late Leif Ericcson Day!!!
He's Thorfinn uncle
Now everyone go read "VINLAND SAGA" please
cool
Good
There were native Americans already on the continent for thousands of years before anyone from europe … these history goofs make it sound like europeans were the first people to EVER set foot on north american soil
A park near my house is named after him, in Brooklyn, New York.
I'd run by it often training for the Marathon.
@@Strongboy1770 Fort Hamilton Parkway? 67th st?
@@josephbiondi8427 Yup.
@@Strongboy1770 howdy neighbor!
@@josephbiondi8427 I lived in Midwood at the time. I'd run the length of Kings Highway, Bay Parkway to the water, Belt Parkway footpath past the Verrazano Bridge til it ended, then to Fourth Ave where I'd see the park. I moved to Florida last August.
Old news...we learned this 60 years ago
There’s a park in my town called Leif Erickson
Guess what day it is
Henga benga burgen
Erickson was not the First !!! Another mistake..Christophoro Columbo (His true name) was the first to do an expedition to Hispanolo at that time period. Explorers knew the Islands were there.. they never made a expedition to the Islands.... ""Columbus"" passed the Island on many voyages and was NOT looking for a easier path to China! No-one knows for sure Leaf was the First .....he wasn't
The word Canadian is right in the name Scandinavian
Greenlander Vikings fought with the Inuit. No reason to believe that a large permanent North American Viking settlement wouldn’t also have fought native Americans. Get off Columbus’s back.
LIFE Eriksson ?? Viking River Cruses.. you need to FIRE this narrator! His name is PRONOUNCED LEAF but spell Leif.
What does it matter? The Vikings weren't the first to visit America anyhow, not even close.
@@Smokin_Phat_Dabs
Vikings came to North America nearly 500 years before Columbus, study of wood reveals. Viking sailors landed on the shores of North America nearly half a millennium before Christopher Columbus, new research reveals
Polonesia are the first to discover south america 239A.D
Amerigo Vespucci was also early
And the tribe of Dan a thousand years before that!