Viking Raiders Attack Columbus

This Columbus Day, forget everything you learned in school about Christopher Columbus--or at least the bit about him discovering America. It's now officially a fact that Leif "The Lucky" Eriksson got the jump on the Genoese mariner.

Five hundred years before Columbus considered sailing off the map's edge, a crew of Norse adventurers came to Canada's northeastern coast. Amazed by the sight of green grass in winter, they made camp and set about exploring. Excursions turned up timber, wheat, butternuts, streams full of salmon, and to the south, something even rarer--wild grapes.

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