#lieferikson

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Mon, 9 Oct 2023 - Leif Erikson Day - Leif Erikson Day is an annual observance that occurs on October 9. It honors Leif Erikson, the Norse explorer who, in approximately 1000, led the first Europeans believed to have set foot on continental North America.

If you keep your eyes open you’ll find a number of #Viking references and symbols worked into the landscape all around Boston (& beyond). From Kenmore Square to Weston, Massachusetts out to Hampton, New Hampshire or Newport, Rhode Island you’ll find statues and towers and reported relics. . . Many of the #Boston sites & markers came from the work of #EbenNortonHorsford who theorized that #Vinland, a land beyond Greenland, explored by #LiefErikson and recorded in Icelandic Sagas- was to be found here along the banks of the Charles River. (You’ll even find a marker Horsford left by the banks of the Charles near Mount Auburn Hospital) . . We discovered this new detail carved into the architecture on a building at the corner of Boylston & Tremont just past Boston Common. There’s Viking ship carvings on a building a few blocks over on State Street as well. Will have to keep an eye out when I’m downtown. Click on the #EbenNortonHorsford hashtag for a look at some of the others we’ve found over the years. #igersboston #igboston617 #igersnewengland #vikinginamerica (at Boston, Massachusetts) https://www.instagram.com/p/BuOk8rFAJyc/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1j19g2teyje2

Happy Lief Erikson Day! 🍍 . . . . . #lieferiksonday #spongebobmemes #spongebob #spongebobsquarepants #lieferikson #viking #norse #happylieferiksonday https://www.instagram.com/p/Bouj7I0HHGy/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=10w6yc76tmz5s

And the winner is: Amerigo, that's why the continent is call America not Colombia or Eriksson #happycolumbusday #amerigovespucci #lieferikson #christophercolumbus #america