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Eriksstadir

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: Museum
  • Description: open-air museum and reconstruction of the birthplace of Leif Erikson in Iceland
  • Also known as: “Eiriksstadir” and “Eiríksstaðir”

Eriksstadir

Latitude
65.05863° or 65° 3′ 31″ north
Longitude
-21.53843° or 21° 32′ 18″ west
Open location code
99QW3F56+FJ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 440115052
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­museum
Wiki­data ID
Q10480451
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Welsh—“Eriksstadir” 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”
  • Uzbek: “EiríksstaðIr”
  • Welsh: “EiríksstaðIr”

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