In the West
"I was born in Iceland around the year 970, Leif came from a world populated by adventurers, traders and Scandinavian warriors known as 'The Vikings'", explains Francesco Surdich, Assistant Professor at the University "Genoa". "With this name (coming from the Scandinavian word 'victim', bay) thërriteshin all those motivated by the desire to conquer internal conflicts or demographic pressures, between centuries VIII-XI, sailed from Scandinavia reaching European shores and then those of North African Mediterranean ". Family of Leif Erikson was the real protagonist of the "occupation of the West", which culminated with the arrival in America. His father was Erik the Red, who had managed to kolonizonte Groenlandën, or a part of America, as it is geographically part of the continent. After a murder, Erik had left Norway with her father and fled to Iceland (where there was also Leif). After a long, involved in a bloody battle, was being deployed to the sea to the north. Between 982-985 was exploring a virtually unexplored land of others. He dubbed this place called "green earth" "Greenland" (Greenland) to attract as many colonies. Two forged a colony and one of them was in creating "property" of his Brattahlid. Scandinavians stayed in Greenland until the fifteenth century when the settlement was abandoned.
Stories
Like his father and his son Leif went in search of new lands. It was urged that the trader Bjarni Herjolfsson story, minus the Brattahlid. Dealer surprised everyone by showing that the land was previously unknown. While sailing between Iceland and Greenland, suddenly the road was diverted due to fog and currents and consequently were found before a land filled with forests, then to an island of ice and finally managed to touch the shores groenlandeze. You would ask that we know from Bjarni and Leifit trips? "For all these scientists are knowledgeable thanks to a saga written by Icelanders, titled 'Saga Groenlandezëve', although there are many other works that surround as 'Saga of Erik the Red,'" explains Surdich. "These are the primary sources about Viking explorations, as well as part of the so-called 'sagas of Icelanders'".
Leif, who among other things was converted to the Christian faith had brought this in Greenland, in exchange for the Nordic paganism, bought Bjarni's ship and prepared to begin his voyage (around the year 1000) along with 35 other men. According to the "sages of Groenlandezëve" on top of travel should have been a father Eric, but at the moment of arrival at the port fell from the horse and decided not to go. He turned to his son and said: "This means that fate has not booked me discovering new lands, as this is where we live now."
Ice
From Greenland, Leif sailed to unknown lands. Initially faced with a desolate and rocky land that Helluland called "land of stone", identified with Baffin Island in Canada. Then turned south and reached a wooded area "with great white beaches and a gentle sloping coastline". It was Canada's east coast, dubbed Markland, "forest land". Finally sailed for two days to the south, reached a more comfortable territory. "Leif and his crew spent a strait, where their ship ran aground, came to cekëtirë. They managed to escape the ship through tidal and lead it in the middle of a river, then decided to spend the winter in those surroundings, as in the adjacent forest trees was good to build barrack ". So has reconstructed the arrival of Leif Johannes Brondsted in the book "The Vikings".
Florida
In that place there was no dry ice and grass, so Leif and his men decided to dimëronin there, to come back later in Greenland. They found that the area was rich with wild vine VINLAND so called "land of wine" (or according to some interpretations "the land of Easter"). But where was Vinlandi? "About position of this territory is not absolute certainty, but is likely in northern Terranovës," explains Professor Surdich. This is evidence of the arrival of the Vikings in America. "Here, in 1960 archaeologists found traces in eight buildings and many objects, to lead the Viking culture and dating in the period between the tenth century and the beginning of XI". The presence of these residues from iron and wood, makes us think that some buildings used by carpenter and blacksmiths, while the discovery of sewing tools such as bone needles, showed that the women lived VINLAND.
