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| Vikings | The name given to a group of skilled sailors from the Scandinavian peninsula. |
| Eric the Red | The name of the Viking leader who left Scandinavia with his father was _________. |
| Greenland | The name given to the large island settled by Eric the Red in an effort to encourage other Vikings to come there. |
| Leif Ericsson | The son of Eric the Red. |
| 1000 | The year in which Leif Ericsson and his crew set foot upon North America. |
| Newfoundland | The current name of the island on the east coast of Canada that Leif Ericsson landed on. |
| Vinland | The name the Vikings gave to the land they landed on after Greenland. |
| Native Americans | The people who are responsible for driving the Vikings out of North America around the year 1015. |
| Sagas | Long spoken tales repeated from one generation to the next. |
| L'Anse aux Meadows | The name of the site in Newfoundland where remains of a Viking settlement have been found. |
| Land of Wine | What the name "Vinland" means. |
| grapes | The Vikings named the island that they landed on "Vinland" because of the __________ that grew there. |
| sailors | Because so much of their lives depended upon sea travel, the Vikings were skilled __________. |
| Greenland | After being banished from Iceland, the Vikings sailed west to a place they called ___________. |
| Iceland | The Vikings who were exiled from Scandinavia first sailed to ____________. |
| Scandinavia | The Vikings came from a peninsula in northern Europe called ___________. |
