[MR] Wikipedia: Leif Erikson Day

[Garth Groff via Atlantia]

Noble Friends,

October 9th is Leif Erikson Day in the United States. Curiously, this 
date has nothing to do directly with the Viking explorer, but rather is 
the date the ship RESTAURATION arrived with a boatload of immigrants in 
New York from Norway  in 1825: 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restauration_(ship) .

But getting back to Leif, most of you know that he was an explorer and 
son of Erik the Red, founder of the Islandic Viking colony on Greenland. 
Leif is credited with exploring the eastern coast of North America and 
founding settlements in a region he named Vinland about 500 years before 
Columbus got all the credit. Leif wasn't the first Viking to land in 
North America. That honor actually goes to Bjarni Herjólfsson, though he 
actually did not make landfall: 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leif_Erikson .

Yours Aye,


Mungo Napier, Laird of Mallard Lodge