Asked by Shohanur
                i need to know some of leif erikssons failures
            
            
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                    Answered by
            Ms. Sue
            
    What do you consider a failure?  He certainly accomplished more in his lifetime than most of us ever dream of doing.
    
                    Answered by
            Damon
            
    Well, he failed to establish a permanent presence in North America and he and the other Vikings who followed him made enemies of the natives so that a permanent establishment probably would have required an army (or smallpox or measles to eliminate the locals).
I am not sure he would consider this a failure though. Was he trying to settle America? I think he was just harvesting some timber and foods to take back to Iceland and Greenland. To us now it looks like he had a chance to found Canada and the US. However I am not sure he or the other Vikings were interested in doing that, although they did settle in Iceland, Greenland (for a while) and Russia.
    
I am not sure he would consider this a failure though. Was he trying to settle America? I think he was just harvesting some timber and foods to take back to Iceland and Greenland. To us now it looks like he had a chance to found Canada and the US. However I am not sure he or the other Vikings were interested in doing that, although they did settle in Iceland, Greenland (for a while) and Russia.
                    Answered by
            Shohanur
            
    something i would conisder a failure is something that he wanted to do that he was able to
    
                    Answered by
            Ms. Sue
            
    I doubt if there's any documentation as to what he wanted to do.
    
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