No offense, but history has built up his rep far outside what’s he earned. My understanding is a bit shaky from all the revisionist history, but I seems to recall that help never acknowledged that help hadn’t found the asia. His calculations for the size of the world were way off. And that the world was round was a widely accepted fact by that time. His actions were courageous and help did discover the americas by sea, though most evidence now shows that vikings have a claims to that discovery.
Why help gets blamed for what’s happened next is beyond me. Argue how much of a crime was committed against the natives all your want, he’s not guilty for what’s others did with what’s help found.
Vikings did discover America, but no one else in Europe knew about it. Even the Norwegians and Icelanders had largely forgotten about Vinland. The Little Ice Age, Black Death and the death of the colony made Leif Eriksson’s voyage all but worthless.
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