Henrietta Christian Wright’s Children's Stories in American History (1885) transports young readers to the rugged, icy shores of Iceland and the daring voyages of the Norse explorers in Chapter IV, titled “The Northmen.” This captivating chapter recounts the legendary tales of Erik the Red, Leif the Lucky, and their kin, who sailed west to discover Greenland and the lands we now know as parts of North America, centuries before Columbus.