Social Studies: First to see it?

It's 986, there is a ship bound for Greenland. It gets thrown off coarse by a storm into strange waters.

Bjarni Herjolfsson was commanding that ship. He was relived when he finally saw land. But the land was strange it didn't look like Greenland, it had small hills covered with forests.

His crew told him to land there, but he refused and went back ouy to sea for Greenland. Little did he know he had crossed the Atlantic and seen Canada.

Leif Ericson followed his route and became the first European to walk on America.

I know until reasently I had never heard of this Bjarni. Maybe I would have if he had gotten out of his boat.

Sources: Wikipedia
Greatest Stories Never Told by Rick Beyer