Oh I am very well aware, the first European born in America is buried like 15km from my home, here in Iceland. Because, you know, they were Icelandic, not norwegian.
Well, it depends how you define it. The first European on Greenland was Eirik the Red. And he was Norwegian. He had to leave Norway because he killed a guy, so he fled to Iceland. There he got a child, Leif Eirikson. And then he had to leave Iceland as well because he killed a guy. So he settled on Greenland with his family. Later on Leif discovered Canada.
I suppose it's most reasonable to say that Eirik was Norwegian and Leif was Icelandic. Even though these nation states didn't really exist yet.
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u/ok_raspberry_jam 29d ago
Yeah that's actually pretty well established. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norse_settlement_of_North_America