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Who is conventionally credited with establishing the first European settlement in the Americas around 1000 AD?
Leif Erikson, son of Erik the Red, sailed from Greenland around 1000 AD and established a short-lived Norse settlement at what is now L'Anse aux Meadows on the northern tip of Newfoundland — the only confirmed pre-Columbian European archaeological site in the Americas, excavated by Helge and Anne Stine Ingstad starting in 1960. The Norse called it *Vinland*.
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The Vikings The Vikings were the seafaring Norse people of Scandinavia who raided, traded, and settled across northern Europe, the North Atlantic, the Mediterranean, and parts of North America between approximately 793 and 1066 AD.
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