Talk:Leif Ericson

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Certain real world information that I don't remember being in the episode was just added to the canon section of the article. I'm not sure what should and should not stay. This will probably also effect what was added to early history. --OuroborosCobra ^talk 08:04, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

I added the bit about Vinland, but the page already had references to Europe and North America which were not given "in the episode". Neither did the shipboard conversation provide us with Eric's century (which i've corrected--not added). Surely this information was part of historian McGiver's knowledge of her own civilisation. She knew--and this page should tell us--what made Eric a superman of his time. If we must stick to what is explicated onscreen, then who is Leif to be? Just a man in a painting, mentioned by name in 2267? But why paint him? Why does Khan recognise him? drom 09:06, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

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I removed the following text:

Vinland was almost certainly what is now the island province of Newfoundland in eastern Canada.

This would belong in an article on Vinland, if we had an article on Vinland, which we don't, and we won't. Readers can go to the Wikipedia article on Ericson for more information. -- Renegade54 15:18, 28 August 2007 (UTC)