Editing Leif Erikson (section)

==Early life==
Leif was the son of [[Erik the Red]] and his wife Thjodhild ([[Old Norse]]: Þjóðhildur), and, through his paternal line, the grandson of [[Thorvald Asvaldsson|Thorvald Ásvaldsson]]. When Erik the Red was young, his father was banished from [[Kingdom of Norway (872–1397)|Norway]] for manslaughter, and the family went into exile in [[Icelandic Commonwealth|Iceland]] (which, during the century preceding Leif's birth, had been colonized by Norsemen, mainly from Norway). Leif was also a distant relative of [[Naddodd]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=Thorvald Asvaldsson {{!}} Mediander {{!}} Connects |url=http://www.mediander.com/connects/85845/thorvald-asvaldsson/ |website=Mediander |access-date=26 October 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170828014629/http://www.mediander.com/connects/85845/thorvald-asvaldsson/ |archive-date=28 August 2017 |url-status=dead}}</ref>{{reliable source|date=December 2023}} who discovered Iceland.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Discovery of Iceland |url=http://www.viking.no/e/info-sheets/iceland/iceland.htm |website=www.viking.no |access-date=26 October 2015 |archive-date=11 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110711170720/http://www.viking.no/e/info-sheets/iceland/iceland.htm |url-status=live}}</ref>

Leif's year of birth is often estimated in the {{c.|970}}s.<ref name="Regal 2022 p. 107">{{cite book |last=Regal |first=B. |title=The Battle over America's Origin Story: Legends, Amateurs, and Professional Historiographers |publisher=Springer International Publishing | year=2022 | isbn=978-3-030-99538-6 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WHFuEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA107 | access-date=6 March 2023 | page=107 |archive-date=10 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230410134424/https://books.google.com/books?id=WHFuEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA107 |url-status=live}}</ref> Though his birthplace is not accounted for in the [[saga]]s,<ref name="snl">{{cite web|url=http://snl.no/Leiv_Eiriksson|work=[[Store norske leksikon]]|title=Leiv Eiriksson|access-date=13 November 2011|language=no|archive-date=5 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170805144000/https://snl.no/Leiv_Eiriksson|url-status=live}}</ref> it is likely he was born in Iceland,<ref name="vis1"/> where his parents met<ref name="sand14">Sanderson, Jeanette. (2002) ''Explorers'', Teaching Resources/Scholastic. p. 14. {{ISBN|0-439-25181-8}}.</ref>—probably somewhere on the edge of [[Breiðafjörður]], and possibly at the farm [[Eiríksstaðir|Haukadal]], where his mother's family was based.<ref name="vis1"/>

Erik was later banished from Iceland and sailed west to a place he named [[Greenland]]. He then briefly returned to Iceland to bring his family and other colonists back with him to Greenland, establishing its first permanent settlement in 986.<ref name="snl"/><ref name="dregni">{{cite book |title=Vikings in the attic: in search of Nordic America |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AWs-DvreMYoC |first=Eric |last=Dregni |author-link=Eric Dregni |pages=72–73 |year=2011 |publisher=U of Minnesota Press |isbn=978-0-8166-6744-4 |access-date=19 November 2015 |archive-date=21 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220521025423/https://books.google.com/books?id=AWs-DvreMYoC |url-status=live}}</ref> Leif grew up on the family estate [[Brattahlíð]] in the [[Eastern Settlement]] of Greenland. He had two brothers, whose names were [[Thorstein Eiriksson|Thorstein]] and [[Thorvald Eiriksson|Thorvald]], and a sister, [[Freydís Eiríksdóttir|Freydís]].<ref name="ingstad">{{cite book |title=The Viking discovery of America: the excavation of a Norse settlement in L'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Gj-I5hdpzGoC |first1=Helge |last1=Ingstad |author1-link=Helge Ingstad |first2=Anne Stine |last2=Ingstad |author2-link=Anne Stine Ingstad |year=2000 |publisher=Breakwater Books |isbn=978-1-55081-158-2 |page=74 |access-date=19 November 2015 |archive-date=24 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220224224716/https://books.google.com/books?id=Gj-I5hdpzGoC |url-status=live}}</ref> [[Tyrker]], one of Erik's [[thrall]]s, had been specially trusted to keep charge of Erik's children, as Leif later referred to him as his "foster father."<ref>{{cite book |title=Discovering the Global Past |page=158 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5hvkfdkal1QC |first1=Merry E. |last1=Wiesner-Hanks |author1-link=Merry Wiesner-Hanks |first2=William Bruce |last2=Wheeler |first3=Frankli n|last3=Doeringer |first4=Kenneth R. |last4=Curtis |year=2011 |publisher=Cengage Learning |isbn=978-1-111-34142-8 |access-date=19 November 2015 |archive-date=23 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220523065347/https://books.google.com/books?id=5hvkfdkal1QC |url-status=live}}</ref>