1. Exploration of North America

2. Crossing the Pond
What would inspire travelers to cross the Atlantic ocean into the unknown?

3. Vikings Came from Scandinavia
- Modern countries of Sweden, Norway, and Denmark

4. 11th Century Viking Colonies
Iceland and Greenland

6. Leif Erikson (Leif the Lucky)
Believed to have discovered North America in the year 1000
almost 500 years before Christopher Columbus
1964 that President Lyndon B. Johnson designated Oct. 9 an annual American observance in honor of the explorer.

7. Leif Erikson (Leif the Lucky)
Icelandic Sagas tell us about his adventures
Wrote about a place he visited and called Vinland
Some thought it was a southern region where vines and grapes grew

8. L’ Anse aux Meadows Newfoundland
Many historians convinced it was L’Anse aux Meadows because of the discovery of Viking artifacts and remains of Viking style buildings
the discovery of a small cloak pin in 1968
This proved that Leif Erickson and crews of Norse explorers settled here in Newfoundland and Labrador (or Vinland as they called it) over a thousand years ago.