Word: icelander
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...Iceland's Claim...
...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...
Reykjavik, Iceland...
...Ericsson, of Norwegian descent, was born in Iceland...
Drawn about 1440, probably by a monk in a Swiss scriptorium, the map's startling features are a strikingly accurate delineation of Greenland in the upper left-hand corner and a representation of "Vinland" (the name Vikings from Iceland and Greenland in the 10th century gave a portion of the coast of North America). There, crudely drawn but unmistakable, are Hudson Bay and the Gulf of St. Lawrence...