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Leif Erikson
norse explorer (c. 970 – c. 1020)
Leif Erikson Day
annual observance on October 9 in honor of the Norse explorer Leif Erikson

Eiríksstaðir
thumb|Reconstructed longhouse at Eiríksstaðir
Eiríksstaðir () is the former homestead of Eiríkr Þorvaldsson, known as Erik the Red, at Haukadalur Valley in the Dalasýsla region of Iceland. It was likely the birthplace of his son Leif Eiríksson, the first known European discoverer of the Americas. A site thought to be that of the original farm has been investigated by archaeologists and remains of two buildings dating to the 9th–10th centuries have been identified. An open-air museum has been established nearby.
Leifsbudir
Leifsbudir (Old Norse: Leifsbuðir) was a settlement mentioned in the Greenland Saga as founded by Leif Eriksson in 1000 or 1001 in Vinland.