The Vikings Stake a Claim (from "1492")

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Historian Joanne Mancini tells Brian about the challenge to Columbus mounted by another immigrant group – Norwegian-Americans – as they made the case for a Viking discovery of North America, and a celebration of “Leif Erikson Day.”

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