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Article: Helge Ingstad.(Obituary)(Helge Marcus Ingstad, champion of the Vikings, died on March 29th, aged 101)(Brief Article)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- April 14, 2001
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AS ONE voyager to another, Helge Ingstad was always kind about Christopher Columbus. He had done well to reach America, Mr Ingstad said. But of course the place had been discovered by the Vikings some 500 years earlier. Even Columbus's navigation was wobbly. He thought he had reached India, when in fact he had ended up in what are now the Bahamas. Mr Ingstad's hero was Leif Ericson. He spent many years seeking to establish that Ericson was not only a superior sailor to Columbus, but in some ways a more admirable man. Columbus was after riches, preferably gold. Ericson was simply looking for a place where families might settle and thrive, where the pasture was good and ...
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