Eiríksstaðir

Eiríksstaðir is the former homestead of Eiríkr Þorvaldsson, known as Erik the Red, at Haukadalur Valley in the region of . It was likely the birthplace of his son Leif Eiríksson, the first known European discoverer of the Americas.
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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

Latitude
65.06607° or 65° 3′ 58″ north
Longitude
-21.50399° or 21° 30′ 14″ west
Elevation
79 metres (259 feet)
Open location code
99QW3F8W+CC
Geo­Names ID
3417599
Wiki­data ID
Q10480451
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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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