United States citizens are being lied to. Every year in October United States citizens celebrated Columbus Day in order to pay homage to Christopher Columbus, the man who supposedly discovered America. However, there is evidence that the Vikings were actually the first to discover North America. Actually, the first person to land in North America landed there by accident.
It started when the father and son team of Erik the Red and Leif Erikson set off to explore the Western Hemisphere. This duo and some other Vikings, landed on present day Greenland. Life there was harsh and there was very little arable land. So Leif Erikson, the son of Erik the Red, followed a rumor he had heard from another Viking had told. The rumor was that a previous Viking had tried to sail to the west of Greenland but was blown off course and by the time he realized what direction he was in he was off the coast of a green and luscious land. This land was present day Newfoundland. So Leif Erikson sailed to the south and eventually landed on Newfoundland and possibly south of that, perhaps Cape Cod. The year was 1000 AD, five hundred years before Columbus. Erikson started a colony there but it only lasted a decade and the inhabitants all returned to Greenland.
Therefore Columbus wasn’t actually the person who discovered America. It was Leif Erikson who landed on North America first. Americans should not be celebrating Columbus Day. Americans should be celebrating Leif Erikson Day.
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