Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Leif Erikson Statue in Reykjavik, Iceland Image by Canva President Donald J. Trump issued a proclamation on Thursday designating ...

The second account, based on the Saga of the Greenlanders, suggests that Erikson sailed west to see what was out there, much like his father Erik the Red had done in settling Greenland. Either way the ...

Although the cartoon character claims to have made up the holiday in the show, it's a real observance in the U.S. and parts of Canada recognizing the man who landed on North American shores long ...

The success of Game of Thrones has brought a large group of new, rabid readers to epic fantasy — and not just to the works of George R. R. Martin, whose A Song of Ice and Fire novels the HBO show is ...

Ragged armies and gods old and new collide in the dizzyingly complex penultimate tale of the Malazan Book of the Fallen (following 2008's Toll the Hounds ). After a traumatic reading of the tiles, ...

Break out the horned helmets, because your new favorite Viking-themed holiday is upon us. It’s Leif Erikson Day—which to some, is only an obscure reference to Spongebob Squarepants. But it’s also a ...

More than a millennium ago, legendary Norse Viking Leif Erikson forever changed the course of history when he fearlessly embarked on a daring expedition into the unknown, becoming the first European ...

Erik Erikson's psychosocial developmental theory (1950, 1968) was a response to Freud's reductionistic views of the human personality. For Erikson, all people have an essence, including the sexuality ...

Erik Erikson was a German psychologist who theorized that there's a specific psychological struggle that takes place through the eight stages of a person's life. These struggles, he believed, ...

In 1973, Yale sociologist Kai T. Erikson got a phone call from an attorney, asking him to recommend a graduate student who could consult on a class-action lawsuit in West Virginia coal country. The ...