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cottish rocket company Skyrora picked up Iceland’s lauded environmental Leif Erikson Award during its recent rocket launch mission in Iceland, where it sent its sub-orbital Skylark Micro to a height ...

Oct. 9 might be Leif Erickson Day, but don't go grabbing that horned hat just yet.The day celebrates the 11th-century Norse explorer who is credited with sailing to Newfoundland, Canada, and settling ...

Today marked "Leif Erikson Day," which commemorates the "discovery of the New World" by the Norse explorer from Iceland, who is said to have settled in "Vinland" – likely modern day Newfoundland.

More than a millennium ago, legendary Norse Viking Leif Erikson forever changed the course of history when he fearlessly embarked on a daring expedition into the unknown, becoming the first European ...

Even today, the national holiday celebrating Leif Erikson’s landing in Newfoundland hasn’t stirred anything like the controversy surrounding Columbus Day. ‘They then left to sail to the east of the ...