Beyond working to erect a statue, the Leif Erikson Monument Association was an active Scandinavian American cultural institution in Minnesota. Its members co-sponsored the Twin Cities’s ...

Thursday, Day 3: That 17-foot statue of Leif Erikson at Shilshole Bay still wouldn’t budge, even after some 40 man-hours of hammering and drilling. It wouldn’t budge even after crews dulled ...

Leif Erikson was the Viking explorer whom many people ... which formed in 1994 and presented duplicates of the Seattle statue to Norway in 1997 and Greenland in 2000, is working with the Port ...

According to the Sagas, Leif Erikson was a prince ... It is essentially an out-of-door statue ; the idea of it is not forced upon the beholder by undue insistence of details, but lies almost ...

The feats of explorers Christopher Columbus and Leif Erikson are now both under scrutiny by Minnesota lawmakers who are trying to rewrite the sayings on their Capitol mall statues. A bill ...

He still wasn’t budging today, the second day in which workers tried to move the fierce-looking Leif Erikson statue that for 45 years has faced Shilshole Bay. First, Artech, the company ...

Now, the Port of Seattle wants to move the statue of Leif Ericson (also spelled Erikson), which has come to symbolize the enduring legacy of the Scandinavian immigrants who settled in nearby Ballard.

October 9 is Leif Erikson Day, which has been observed annually in the U.S. by presidential proclamation since the 1960s. Here in Boston, a statue of the famed Viking stands proud ⁠— if seemingly a ...

which was a portion of the programme of the dedication of the statue of Leif Erikson, the Icelandic explorer, who is believed by many to have discovered this continent. Among those who contributed ...

Leif Erikson has long served as a symbol for Minnesota’s Scandinavian American community. According to Icelandic sagas, Erikson led a Norse expedition to North America in 1000 CE and established ...

Someone sprayed dark spray paint over part of the wording on Duluth's Leif Erikson statue over the weekend. A photo of the vandalism was posted on Mayor Emily Larson’s Facebook page early Monday.

So we set off to break down the long timeline of Massachusetts’ complicated, largely unproven and definitely unorthodox infatuation with Erikson and Viking heritage. A statue of Leif Erikson ...