Eiríksstaðir
Eiríksstaðir is the former homestead of Eiríkr Þorvaldsson, known as Erik the Red, at Haukadalur Valley in the Dalasýsla region of Iceland. It was likely the birthplace of his son Leif Eiríksson, the first known European discoverer of the Americas.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Abandoned farm
- Description: open-air museum and reconstruction of the birthplace of Leif Erikson in Iceland
- Also known as: “Eiriksstadir”
Eiríksstaðir
- Categories: archaeological site, open-air museum, reconstructed structure, and agriculture
- Location: Dalabyggð, West Iceland, Iceland, Nordic countries, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Welsh—“Eiríksstaðir” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “EiríksstaðIr”
- Albanian: “EiríksstaðIr”
- Aragonese: “EiríksstaðIr”
- Armenian: “Էյրիկստադիր”
- Asturian: “EiríksstaðIr”
- Basque: “Eiríksstaðir”
- Catalan: “EiríksstaðIr”
- Chinese: “埃里克斯塔济”
- Croatian: “EiríksstaðIr”
- Czech: “EiríksstaðIr”
- Danish: “Eiríksstaðir”
- Danish: “EiríksstaðIr”
- Dutch: “EiríksstaðIr”
- Esperanto: “Eiríksstaðir”
- Esperanto: “EiríksstaðIr”
- Estonian: “EiríksstaðIr”
- Faroese: “EiríksstaðIr”
- Finnish: “EiríksstaðIr”
- French: “Eiríksstaðir”
- Galician: “EiríksstaðIr”
- German: “EiríksstaðIr”
- Hungarian: “EiríksstaðIr”
- Icelandic: “Eiríksstaðir”
- Irish: “EiríksstaðIr”
- Italian: “EiríksstaðIr”
- Latvian: “EiríksstaðIr”
- Limburgan: “EiríksstaðIr”
- Lithuanian: “EiríksstaðIr”
- Livvi: “EiríksstaðIr”
- Luxembourgish: “EiríksstaðIr”
- Maltese: “EiríksstaðIr”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Eiríksstaðir”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “EiríksstaðIr”
- Norwegian: “Eiríksstaðir”
- Ossetian: “Эйриксстадир”
- Polish: “EiríksstaðIr”
- Portuguese: “EiríksstaðIr”
- Romanian: “EiríksstaðIr”
- Scottish Gaelic: “EiríksstaðIr”
- Slovak: “EiríksstaðIr”
- Slovenian: “EiríksstaðIr”
- Spanish: “EiríksstaðIr”
- Swedish: “Eiríksstaðir”
- Turkish: “EiríksstaðIr”
- Ukrainian: “Ейріксстадір”
- Uzbek: “EiríksstaðIr”
- Welsh: “EiríksstaðIr”
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