Leif Erikson Interactive Biography
By Micah's Learning Resources
He led the first European expedition to reach North America, 500 years before Columbus. This interactive biography gives students the full Leif Erikson: a Norse explorer whose father discovered Greenland, who sailed west on a rumor and found a land of wild grapes and self-sown wheat, and whose story survives in two medieval sagas that agree on almost nothing except that he did it. What's Included: - Five life eras with public domain paintings and engravings, from the Norse settlement of Iceland and Greenland through the voyage to Vinland, the brief attempt at colonization, and the violent encounters with the people already living there - A dual-track timeline that sets Leif's own life against the world he moved through: the Viking Age expansion across the North Atlantic, the conversion of Iceland to Christianity, the sagas of Erik the Red, and the archaeological discoveries at L'Anse aux Meadows - Four Norse journeys drawn on a real world map with direction arrows and place markers. Bjarni Herjolfsson's sighting of North America a decade before Leif is shown as a dashed line because only one saga reports it, and students can see the source distinction on the map itself - A twenty-node connections web of the people, ships and events around him: Erik the Red, Thorfinn Karlsefni, Gudrid Thorbjarnardottir, the Skraeling people, and the archaeologists Helge Ingstad and Anne Stine Ingstad - Saga sources with the evidence weighed for students, each paired with a caution about what a
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