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Leif Eiríksson, allegedly the first European to land in North America, was also known as hinn heppni, ‘the Lucky’.
Neil Price • The Children of Ash and Elm
This is preserved in a remarkable English document that records the conversations between Alfred, the king of Wessex, and a visitor to his court in the 880s, as mentioned above in the prologue. Named there as ‘Ohthere’, he was almost certainly called Óttarr in his own language and seems to have come from the region around the Lofoten islands in Arc
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