this coming Monday, when you’ll correct everyone on Christopher Columbus Day that it wasn’t Columbus who was the first European to arrive in the New World in 1492. It was actually Erikson, a viking from Iceland, who arrived in North America some 500 years earlier.

this coming Monday, when you’ll correct everyone on Christopher Columbus Day that it wasn’t Columbus who was the first European to arrive in the New World in 1492. It was actually Erikson, a viking from Iceland, who arrived in North America some 500 years earlier.