Leif Erikson Coloring Page

Leif was the son of Erik the Red and grew up in Greenland. Around the year 1000, the sagas say, he sailed west and found a land with wild grapes and good timber, which he named Vinland. It was probably somewhere on the coast of North America.

Proof came in 1960, when archaeologists found the remains of a Norse camp at L’Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland, Canada. It dates to around 1000 AD. Leif’s nickname in the sagas was “Leif the Lucky.”