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790 CE - 1100 CE: The Viking Age.
970 CE - 1030 CE: Approximate time-indication of the Vikings' expeditions to Vinland (Newfoundland, North America).
970 CE - 980 CE: Leif Erikson is born somewhere around this time, probably at Eiríksstaðir in Breidafjord, Iceland.
980 CE - 1020 CE: Radiocarbon dates given for the remains of the Viking settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows (Newfoundland, Canada).
985 CE: Erik the Red founds the Norse Eastern Settlement in Greenland & moves there with his family, including his son Leif Erikson.
1003 CE: Leif Erikson succeeds his father (now deceased) as paramount chief of Greenland. .
1025 CE: Leif Erikson's son Thorkel succeeds him as chieftain of Greenland; presumably, Leif has died by this time. .
1220 CE - 1280 CE: The Saga of the Greenlanders & Erik the Red's Saga, together known as the Vinland Sagas but written independently, are composed in Iceland.