Editing Leif Erikson (section)

==Personal life==
Leif has been described in the [[Vinland sagas]] as a wise, considerate and strong man of striking appearance.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/leif-ericsson|title=Leif Eriksson &#124; The Canadian Encyclopedia|website=www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca|access-date=24 February 2021|archive-date=13 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210413193628/https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/leif-ericsson|url-status=live}}</ref> When he was of a proper age, Leif went to Norway, likely to serve as a [[Retinue|retainer]] to its king, [[Olaf Tryggvason]].<ref>Wallace, 2006, pp. 17,19.</ref> It was on this journey to Norway that the ''Saga of Erik the Red'' states that Leif's ship was driven to the [[Hebrides]], where he and his crew were forced to remain for much of the summer, awaiting favorable winds.<ref>''Saga of Eric the Red'' in Reeves, 1890, p. 35.</ref> During his stay there, Leif fell in love with a noblewoman, Thorgunna, who gave birth to their son Thorgils.<ref name="ingstad"/> Thorgunna remained in the Hebrides when Leif left, as he refused to take her along without permission from her family.<ref>''Saga of Eric the Red'' in Reeves, 1890, pp. 35–36.</ref> Thorgils was later sent to Leif in Greenland, but he did not become popular.<ref name="michels">{{cite web|url=http://www.canadianmysteries.ca/sites/vinland/whereisvinland/leif/indexen.html|title=Leif Eiriksson, "Leif the Lucky" (Leifr Eiríksson, nicknamed, Leifr hin heppni)|access-date=21 November 2011|work=Great Unsolved Mysteries in Canadian History: Where is Vinland?|archive-date=9 December 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161209104628/http://www.canadianmysteries.ca/sites/vinland/whereisvinland/leif/indexen.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

After arriving at the court of Norway's King Olaf Tryggvason, Leif was converted to Christianity. According to both the ''Saga of Erik the Red, '' and ''[[Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar|Olaf Tryggvason's Saga]]'' as found in ''[[Heimskringla]]'', after Leif's conversion, the king then commissioned him to return to Greenland to convert the settlers there. During the journey, he was blown off course and discovered Vinland before finding his way to Greenland.<ref name="Campbell_Erik-the-Red-Saga" /> Leif's father Erik reacted coldly to the suggestion that he should abandon his religion, while his mother Thjóðhildr became a Christian and built a church called Thjóðhild's Church.<ref>Somerville & McDonald, 2010, p. 420.</ref> A [[Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar en mesta|different version]] of ''Olaf Tryggvason's Saga'', found in ''[[Flateyjarbók]]'', makes no reference to Leif being blown off course and discovering Vinland during his return from Norway, but indicates that after arriving in Greenland, all of that country was converted, including Leif's father Erik.<ref>Reeves, 1890, p. 57.</ref> Some versions of ''Olaf Tryggvason's Saga'' also indicate that to help with the conversion, Leif brought a priest and clerics with him to Greenland.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Hermannsson |first1=Halldór |date=June 1954 |title=Tyrkir, Leif Erikson's Foster-Father |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3039733 |journal=Modern Language Notes |volume=69 |issue=6 |pages=388–389 |issn=0149-6611 |publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press |doi=10.2307/3039733 |jstor=3039733 |access-date=11 December 2022 |archive-date=12 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221212015117/https://www.jstor.org/stable/3039733 |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Chieftaincy and death===
The winter following Leif's return from Vinland, his father died (shortly after 1000 CE),<ref name="The Canadian Encyclopedia 2018"/> making Leif paramount chief in Greenland.<ref name="Wallace, 2006, p. 19" /> {{anchor|Thorkell}} Leif is last mentioned alive in 1018 in the [[Óláfs saga helga|Saga of St. Olaf]].<ref name="The Canadian Encyclopedia 2018"/> According to [[The Saga of the Sworn Brothers]], by 1025 the chieftaincy of [[Tunulliarfik Fjord|Eiríksfjǫrðr]] had passed to his son Thorkel.<ref>{{cite book|title=The frozen echo: Greenland and the exploration of North America, ca. A.D. 1000–1500|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5qonlDkZW3MC|first=Kirsten A.|last=Seaver|publisher=Stanford University Press|page=62|year=1997|isbn=978-0-8047-3161-4|access-date=19 November 2015|archive-date=20 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191220162006/https://books.google.com/books?id=5qonlDkZW3MC|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="The Canadian Encyclopedia 2018"/> Nothing is mentioned about his death in the sagas—he probably died in Greenland some time between these dates.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H1fUAAAAMAAJ&q=leif+died+1019+1025|title=The problem of Wineland, Volume 1; Volume 25|first=Halldór|last=Hermannsson|year=1936|publisher=Cornell University Press|isbn=978-0527003555|access-date=19 November 2015|archive-date=19 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210819005648/https://books.google.com/books?id=H1fUAAAAMAAJ&q=leif+died+1019+1025|url-status=live}}</ref> Nothing further is known about his family beyond the succession of Thorkell as chieftain.<ref name="The Canadian Encyclopedia 2018"/>