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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Heimskringla! or the Stoned Angels is a drama by Paul Foster about Leif Ericsson's discovery of America. Performed by Ellen Stewart's La Mama Troupe, it is directed by Tom O'Horgan, of Hair fame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Nov. 7, 1969 | 11/7/1969 | See Source »

...controversy over whether Christopher Columbus was the true discoverer of the New World can dip into this pedantic tome for $15. Prepared by British Museum and Yale scholars who recently unearthed and authenticated a 1440 map that shows Greenland and a distorted North American continent, the book credits Leif Ericsson with a pre-Columbian look at the American shore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Nov. 12, 1965 | 11/12/1965 | See Source »

...Italians have not asked, "Was the Vikings' sketch drawn in 1440?" or "Was Ericsson, in fact, the first discoverer of America?" To answer the question of "who got here first" on the basis of ethnocentrism is as backward as pre-Columbus thinking that "the world cannot be round...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 29, 1965 | 10/29/1965 | See Source »

...Government apparently believes that Leif Ericsson was a son of Iceland and a discoverer of America. The U.S. engraved a statement to this effect on a statue of Leif and gave the statue to the Icelandic nation on its 1,000th anniversary in 1930. I am sorry if my fellow countryman has turned Norwegian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 29, 1965 | 10/29/1965 | See Source »

...Ericsson, of Norwegian descent, was born in Iceland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 29, 1965 | 10/29/1965 | See Source »

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