Leif Erikson Day makes no less sense than Columbus Day, but why is celebrating any of these explorers more important than respecting the first Americans?
Vikings are cool, bro. Also, they're the source of more than one History Channel conspiracy theory about the Knights Templar and the Masons as well. Though we should probably have a Chief Pontiac Day, I'll give you that. I may or may not have visited his burial site twice this weekend. Legend shall be the judge of that.
Absolutely. I'm part Norwegian and the college that I attended has Ole the Viking as its mascot. Even with that aside, Vikings are worth celebrating more than Columbus. I said that they were no less great; perhaps I should have just said more.
Columbus is less great--despite my being half-Italian and all--due to, despite having managed to convince a queen to give him a huge amount of money, was actually a moron. First off, he didn't prove the world was round. He just assumed it was smaller than it actually was, thus believing he could reach Asia. If you take out the Americas, he would have died at sea in all likelihood, being one more idiot, though an innovative one. The Vikings were all like "cool, land, let's live her some time".
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