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      Leif Erikson
          
            * c. 970 in Iceland
              + c. 1020
            
          
           
        
      
      
      Leif Erikson, Leiv Eiriksson or Leif Ericson was a Norse explorer
      from Iceland.
      He is thought to have been the first known European to have set
      foot on continental North America,
      approximately half a millennium before Christopher Columbus.
      
      
        
        
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