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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
8: *[[Francisco de Almeida]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] naval explorer...
14: *[[Charles Albanel]] (1616-1696), Canada
21: ...] naval officer, several expeditions to the [[Canada|Canadian]] [[Arctic]]
23: ...]], first to sight the [[Pacific Ocean]], founded Darién, oldest surviving European settlement in the...
38: *[[Saint Brendan]] - [[Ireland|Irish]] [[abbot]] who sailed the [... - Bjarni Herjulfsson (982 bytes)
7: * [[Vinland]] - Erik the Red (5731 bytes)
2: '''Erik the Red''' ([[950]]–[[1003]]; [[old Icelandic language|old Icelandi...
6: ... have found an area that was apparently too "formidable and uninviting." Eventually he reached a land ...
12: ... Leif was the first Viking to explore the land of Vinland (North America). Leif invited his father on the v... - Leif Ericson (4502 bytes)
4: ...e [[Newfoundland]] and, by later extension, [[Canada]].
6: It is said to this day that Leif was born around [[980]] (in [[Iceland]...
8: ... out to explore the land that Bjarni had found, today known as North America.
10: ...("Land of the Flat Stones"), probably the present day [[Baffin Island]]. Next he came to a land that w...
12: ...und [[grape]]s, and that Leif named the country [[Vinland|Vínland]] after them. - Viking (18085 bytes)
4: ...omantic]] connotations in the [[18th century]]. Today, somewhat controversially, the word is also used...
13: ...ng tax on their goods. The next recorded attack, dated June 8, [[793]], was on the monastery at [[Lin...
15: ...d and colonised large parts of [[England]] (see [[Danelaw]]). They travelled up the rivers of [[France...
17: ===Adam of Bremen===
18: [[Adam of Bremen]] records in his book ''Gesta Hammabur... - Viking Age (10637 bytes)
6: ...rticularly those from the area that is now modern-day Sweden, continued south on rivers to the [[Black...
10: ...l generations later, the [[Normans|Norman]] descendants of these Viking settlers not only identified t...
23: The Danes sailed south, to [[Friesland]], France and the...
25: ...t their final battle with the English. See also [[Danelaw]]
46: ... attempted to settle the land which they dubbed [[Vinland]] about the year [[1000]] A.D. A small settlement...
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