leif ericsons nickname is lucky leif It wasn't lucky leif, it was leif the lucky
Leif Ericson was born in Iceland. He spent his early life there. He moved to Greenland with his father, Eric the Red, when he was probably about 14 or 15.
He was a viking that found the New World (North America) 500 years BEFORE Christopher Colombus.
leif ericson was a viking who brought the vikings to greenland in 1000A.D.
The first European to set foot in the new world, opening a new land rich with resources for the Vikings to explore.