Nearly 500 years before Columbus, Leif Erikson saw an opportunity for growth beyond Greenland. His voyage was not a direct financial investment but a response to being blown off course, a turn of fate that leveraged the superior technology of his longship. This accidental journey, following the enterprising spirit of his father Erik the Red, set the stage for a monumental discovery that would change history forever. He made landfall in a verdant place he named Vinland, a valuable new property wi