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He reached the Americas centuries before Columbus. Why doesn’t he get more credit?

Washington Post World · October 12, 2026 at 7:20 AM

Accounts of Leif Erikson’s voyage to present-day Canada were known to Europeans in Christopher Columbus’s time.

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