Bjarni Herjólfsson
The Icelandic navigator Bjarni Herjólfsson was undoubtedly the first European to have seen the continent of North America.
While it sailed between the Iceland and the Greenland into 985 or 986, its boat was deviated towards the west by a storm. Having begun again its road, it saw hills covered with forests, but it did not take time to unload there and its discovery did not appear to interest anybody. Thereafter, Leif Ericsson, wire of Erik the Red, undertook to explore the area, where it founded, around the year 1000, the colony of the Vinland, which can be regarded as the first European establishment in North America.
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