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...wall in East Boston, one embittered Italian-American scrawled-'Leif Ericsson is a fink." In other cities across the U.S., indignant sons of Italy and politicians eager for their votes, reacted in like manner to word that Yale University had acquired a medieval map containing additional evidence that Leif Ericsson, riding the wild Atlantic winds reached the North American shore about the year 1000 (TIME, Oct. 15). Though Leif's landing is hardly news in scholarly circles, Yale's just-before-Columbus Day announcement stirred a storm of popular protest strong enough to have blown his longships...
Cambridge City Councillor Alfred E. Vellucci is going to make Yale and Leif Ericson both wish they'd never heard of America...
Vellucci was incensed last week when Yale announced that it had found a map, drawn in 1440, which seemed to indicate that Norseman Leif Ericson, not Italian Christopher Columbus, discovered America...
...century, the rest of Europe knew about the Viking voyages. While it is possible that detailed knowledge of the voyage may not have been generally available by the 15th century, discovery of the map still forces a reappraisal of the entire age of exploration, from the year 1000, when Leif Ericsson and his men were blown ashore on the North American coast, to the late 16th century, when Europeans were exploring the waters of Asia, Africa and America. The map throws further doubt on the legend that Columbus was sailing into completely mysterious and uncharted seas when...
District Court held Lament's case to be moot. In San Francisco last fall, how ever, a Danish journalist named Leif Heilberg won his case hands down in the same kind of court when he sued for unimpeded delivery of a Chinese Communist magazine printed in Esperanto...