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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ... [[travelogue]], the [[History of Science and Technology]] and [[Biography]]. Also, see [[Internationa...
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17: ...st at the [[South Pole]], first to navigate the [[Northwest Passage]] in a single ship
22: ...y]]/[[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of [[North America]])
26: *[[Heinrich Barth]] ([[1821]]-[[1865]]), Northern and Central Africa - Bjarni Herjulfsson (982 bytes)
1: ...his findings both in Greenland and in Norway, but no one seemed to have taken any interest in them at ...
3: ...pt at settlement by Europeans in the Americas (if not counting the Greenland settlements).
7: * [[Vinland]] - Erik the Red (5731 bytes)
2: ...e]]). Born in the Jaeder district of south-west [[Norway]], he was the son of Þorvaldr Ásvaldsson ([...
4: ...rowed a few wooden bench boards and when they had not been returned to Erik, he sought out an explaina...
6: ... Settlements, which were actually situated in the north and the south, proved to be the only two areas...
8: ...ilt the [[estate]] [[Brattahlíð]], near what is now [[Narsarsuaq]], for himself. His title was that ...
12: ... the first Viking to explore the land of Vinland (North America). Leif invited his father on the voyag... - Leif Ericson (4502 bytes)
4: ...the first [[Europe]]an known to have discovered [[North America]]—more specifically, the region ...
6: ...Greenland]], which he had named. As far as it is known, Leif Ericson had two brothers, [[Thorvald Erik...
8: ...re the land that Bjarni had found, today known as North America.
10: ...land he met was covered with flat rock slabs (Old Norse: ''hellur''). He therefore called it [[Hellula...
12: ...und [[grape]]s, and that Leif named the country [[Vinland|Vínland]] after them. - Viking (18085 bytes)
4: ...ion in general is more properly referred to as '''Norse'''.
13: ...ried to get them to accompany him to the king's manor to pay a trading tax on their goods. The next r...
19: ... 'quos illi Wichingos as appellant, nostri Ascomannos regi Danico tributum solvunt''.
52: ... pirates, as opposed to the descriptions in the [[Norse saga]].
55: ...o those used by the Scandinavian defense fleets, known as the [[ledung]]. The term "Viking ships" has... - Viking Age (10637 bytes)
2: ...e East]], northern [[Africa]], and even reached [[North America]].
6: ...rs to the [[Black Sea]] and then on to [[Constantinople]].
8: .... The region now known as [[Normandy]], after its Norse raiders, was profoundly disrupted during this ...
10: ...and culture into [[England]] in 1066, after the [[Norman Conquest]] of England.
17: ...ical advances, such as the use of iron. Although another cause could well be pressure caused by the [[...
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