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