His name is Actually Leif Eriksson, and he wasn't searching for anything he got lost on his way to Greenland and landed in present day Newfoundland. He established a settlement there but it didn't last.
lief ericsson got the name lief the lucky because on the way back from Norway he saved a icelandic and his crew
here
In the year 970.
North America.
he died of starvation
right now, this second
Leif Erica the 3rd
In the year 970.
The Vikings... and sometimes with his father Eric the Red.
To find new lands to colonize.
No one. He had his own ship and supplies.
lief ericsson