You Can Find Leif Erikson Statues All Over The World

In Trondheim, Norway; Brattahlid, Greenland; and L'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland, Canada, Leif has erected replica monuments. There won't be any more reproductions made. For the Trondheim statue, the molds were produced in 1996. Molds do not last forever, therefore Leif considers himself fortunate to have obtained three statues from this series.

Boston built one in 1887 thanks to the efforts of a Harvard chemist who was passionate about Viking mythology. In the following few years, Leif Erikson's sculptures were erected in Milwaukee and Chicago. The 9.5 foot (2.9 m) tall bronze figure, which shows Erikson holding a shield in his left hand, is perched upon a sizable boulder. The words "Leif Erikson Discoverer of America" are engraved on the boulder. Other people rule over Iceland, Newfoundland, and Norway. In Reykjavk, where Leif was born, there used to be a bodyguard for the statue of him that is shown above. The United States gave this sculpture, which weighs a full metric ton, as a present. City officials began to fear that drunk passersby would try to urinate on it after it was put up in 1931. In 1935, night watchmen were posted at Leif's metal feet. Right up until the start of World War II, the statue was still being guarded.