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1) The Vikings
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Traces the history of the daring Viking seamen from 800 to 1100 A.D. and their exploration of the Atlantic Ocean and western hemisphere.
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Magic tree house. Original series volume 33
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When the magic tree house whisks Jack and Annie off to Greenland, they're not sure what time they've landed in, but they immediately know what their mission is: save a narwhal! Then they meet a young hunter named Leif Erikson and they ask for his help. But Leif has other ideas...
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As a young man growing up in Greenland, Leif Ericsson had heard stories about a land to the west across the Atlantic Ocean. One day, he gathered a crew and set off to explore the land himself. He landed at three different places, finally settling at Vinland", now Newfoundland, Canada, for the winter. When he returned home, he became a hero, and inspired many other Vikings to explore the new world.
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"Hold on to your Viking helmets as you learn about the first known European to set foot on North America in this exciting addition to the Who Was? Series! Leif Erikson was born to be an explorer. His father, Erik the Red, had established the first European settlement in present-day Greenland, and although he didn't yet know it, Leif was destined to embark on an adventure of his own. The wise and striking Viking landed in the area known as Vinland...
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Tells how Leif sailed with his father, Eric the Red, from Iceland to Greenland where he grew up; describes his journeys back to Norway, where he became a Christian and then to the land he called Vinland; and tells how his kinsmen settled in Vinland and met the Indians.
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Imagination station volume 1
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Beth and her cousin Patrick travel in Mr. Whittaker's invention, the Imagination station, to 1000 A.D. Greenland, where they meet Erik the Red and Leif Eriksson and witness the spread of Christianity in that country.
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Five hundred years before Columbus landed on the shores of North America, Norse explorer Leif Ericson and the Vikings sailed from Greenland to a new land sighted farther west. In the early 1960s, archeologist Anne Stine Ingstad rewrote history when she made the remarkable discovery of Vinland, a Viking settlement on the northern tip of Newfoundland. Travel back to the Dark Ages to relive the story of one of the greatest explorers of all time.
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