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Article: Norway's brave explorers.
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- Faces: People, Places, and Cultures
- Article date:
- March 1, 2004
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Norway was home to three extraordinary men: Leif Erikson, a Viking believed to be the first European to land on the North American continent; Roald Amundsen, the first man to reach the South Pole; and Thor Heyerdahl, who first set out to prove that Polynesian islanders might have come from Peru. Their quests could not have been more different, but all three wanted to be the first to prove a theory or explore an uncharted region.
And all three succeeded in doing what they set out to do. The Vikings, "men of the bays," added sails and a dragon's head to the long-boats used by their ancestors. The dragon's head was intended to ward off evil. Then, in A.D. 870, using ...
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... ... released today by the White House: LEIF ERIKSON DAY, 1997 - - - - - - - BY THE PRESIDENT ... world. One of the earliest of these was Leif Erikson. Almost a thousand years ago, braving ... and a lasting place in history. But Leif Erikson is more than a symbol of the pioneer ...
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