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.
- Abandoned farm
- …lies at an elevation of 79 metres (259 feet)
- Description: open-air museum and reconstruction of the birthplace of Leif Erikson in Iceland
Eiríksstaðir
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Latitude
65.06607° or 65° 3′ 58″ north
Longitude
-21.50399° or 21° 30′ 14″ west
Open location code
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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”
- Russian: “Эйриксстадир”
- Scottish Gaelic: “EiríksstaðIr”
- Slovak: “EiríksstaðIr”
- Slovenian: “EiríksstaðIr”
- Spanish: “EiríksstaðIr”
- Swedish: “Eiríksstaðir”
- Turkish: “EiríksstaðIr”
- Ukrainian: “Ейріксстадір”
- Uzbek: “EiríksstaðIr”
- Welsh: “EiríksstaðIr”
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