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  1. Norse explorer, son of Eric the Red, who
  2. sailed west from Greenland about 1000 to find
  3. a country first sighted by Norsemen in 986.
  4. Landing with 35 companions in North America,
  5. he called it Vinland, because he discovered
  6. grape vines growing there. The story was
  7. confirmed 1963 when a Norwegian expedition,
  8. led by Helge Ingstad, discovered remains of a
  9. Viking settlement (dated about 1000) near the
  10. fishing village of L'Anse-aux-Meadows at the
  11. northern tip of Newfoundland.
  12.