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Originally posted by Nim Pim:
Why is it named Leif Ericson? Sounds swedish.

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Okay, Lily.

As to the name I suspect because it was a good explorer name.

For them's that don't know Leiv Eiriksson -- the son of Norwegian-born Eirik Thorvaldsson, known as Eirik the Red -- became the first known European to set foot on the shores of North America almost 500 years before Columbus is credited to have.

That's why October 9th is "Leif Ericson Day"here in the U.S. Too bad we don't get a three day weekend out of it...

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