He did it in 33.5 hours in a single-seat, single-engine monoplane, thus making him a kind of 20th-century
Leif Ericson, an aeronautical Magellan, one of the earliest beacons of the age of aviation.
From the landing of
Leif Ericson to "year one of the Joey Smallwood calendar" and the entrance of Newfoundland into Confederation, the inclusion of events from over a millennia of Newfoundland history speaks to the novels immense historical scope.
Farther north, Cabot became the first European since
Leif Ericson and the Vikings to land on North American soil when he embarked three voyages for England's Henry VII between the summers of 1496 and 1498.
At some indeterminate point, Owl's Head/Bliss Park shades into
Leif Ericson Park, the existence of which testifies to the once-flourishing Norwegian community in Bay Ridge.
The saga of Prince Madog, the Welshman who discovered America before
Leif Ericson or Columbus.
Each year, people dress in Nordic folk costumes and march in the Constitution Day Parade to
Leif Ericson Park, where Miss Norway is crowned.
In fifteen compact chapters and 177 pages, professors Hullar and Nelson have covered the essentials of American history from
Leif Ericson through the presidential campaign (but not the result) of 2000.
VIKING hero
Leif Ericson couldn't have known what he started when he set sail across the Atlantic 500 years before Columbus.
In summer 1873, Anderson accompanied the famous violinist Ole Bull, who was then living in Madison, to Norway to raise money to build a statue of the Viking explorer
Leif Ericson. In Bergen, Anderson attended a concert given by Grieg and Bull; the writer Bjornstjerne Bj[ddot{o}]rnson also gave a speech.