The Viking Who Got His Timing Wrong

In 1887, a statue was unveiled in Boston, Massachusetts, a city on America's eastern seaboard. This wasn't just any statue, mind you – it was a towering 102-inch (260 cm) bronze figure of Leif Erikson, the Norse explorer who set sail from Iceland and made landfall in North America a thousand years ago. You could say he was a millennium early, hence the humorous nickname, 'The Viking Who Got His Timing Wrong'. The statue, commissioned by Eben Norton Horsford, a well-known businessman and champion of Norse exploration, was masterfully crafted by sculptor Anne Whitney.

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