Once Upon a Time... The Explorers
Season 1
Ep 2. Erik the Red and the Discovery of America
- TV-G
- December 12, 1996
- 24 min
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(23)
The discovery of America is usually associated to one date and one name: 1492 and Christopher Columbus. This ignores the fact that 500 years before the Spanish navigators touched land with their caravels, a handful of hardy Scandinavian sailors crossed the same ocean in their streamlined knorrs.