History Facts That Will Make You Question the Passage of Time

Vikings in Greenland

Vikings once lived in Greenland for nearly 5 centuries up until approximately 1450. That’s 40 years before Christopher Columbus, but that’s not all. It’s believed that nearly 500 years before Columbus, a group of Viking Explorers led by expedition leader Leif Eriksson, traveled across the Atlantic Ocean on a wooden ship and dropped anchor on an unknown land that would one day become America. Accounts of how he made it to the new world were spread by word of mouth before they were recorded in the 12^th and 13^th century. And as the saga goes, he crossed the Atlantic by accident after going of course on his way home.