Editing Leif Erikson (section)

===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"/>