Unit one, number one, Exercise one.0:01
Listen to the text the First Discovery of America and do the task from your activity book.0:06
The First Discovery of America.0:25
It is common knowledge that Vikings were great travelers.0:29
There is a story that proves it.0:33
Eric the Red was a rich farmer of Iceland.0:35
Once he got into trouble and had to leave the country.0:38
He had heard that there was another island to the west.0:42
So he set out to find it.0:45
He took with him his family, his servants and some friends.0:47
He also took horses, sheep and cattle.0:51
The little company sailed and sailed.0:55
They finally came upon a lonely island.0:58
Part of the island was covered with ice, but there was a place with grass for the animals.1:01
Eric and his people settled there and gave the island the name Greenland.1:07
Eric the Red had two sons, one of whom was known as Leif.1:13
Leif was born in about 980, more than a thousand years ago.1:18
Leif went to sea as a boy.1:23
His father gave him a ship when he was 19.1:25
In the year 1000, Leif sailed to Norway, where he became a Christian.1:29
When he sailed for home, he took along two priests to teach the Christian religion to the people of Greenland.1:36
According to a legend, Leif and his men were in a hurry to get home, but they ran into storms and fog.1:44
Eventually they saw land.1:51
But it wasn't bare and gloomy Greenland.1:53
All about them were forests.1:57
The Northmen liked the place very much and decided to stay there until spring.1:59
They built shelters in which to spend the winter.2:05
There was little snow and ice.2:09
The streams were full of fish and the woods were full of game.2:11
The next summer they found open fields where wild grain grew.2:15
They picked wild grapes.2:20
These made such good wine that Leif called the country Wineland, or Vinland.2:22
The men took samples of the wild grain and grapes and found their way home to Greenland.2:29
They used the samples to prove to their families they had found a new land.2:35
As far as we know, Leif never went back to Vinland.2:40
The people who heard of Leif's adventure told the story to their children.2:44
Years later, this saga was written down.2:50
Not all folk tales are true, but scholars believe there is much truth in the saga of Leif Erikson.2:54
Scholars believe that Leif really discovered a new land, a part of the world no one in Europe knew about.3:00
Before that time, the land that Leif and his men named Vinland was probably North America.3:07
It means that Northmen had discovered America about 500 years before Christopher Columbus.3:15
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