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

He reached the Americas centuries before Columbus. Why doesn’t he get more credit?: Accounts of Leif Erikson’s voyage to present-day Canada were known to Europeans in Christopher Columbus’s time. By Matthew Hay Brown For the explorers from ice-covered Greenland, it must have seemed a paradise. A genuinely green land of lush meadows irrigated by free-flowing rivers. Whales and caribou to hunt, nesting birds and wild salmon to catch,