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While Columbus's 1492 voyage is famous, Leif Erikson, son of Erik the Red, landed on continental North America nearly 500 years earlier. Blown off course by a storm during a trip from Norway to Greenland around 1000 AD, he and his crew found a fertile land they named 'Vinland.' For centuries, this story was only known through medieval Icelandic texts called the Vinland Sagas and was considered myth. However, in 1960, archaeologists unearthed a Norse settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundla