Leif Erikson Quotes

consider how the Hidden Persuaders employ the magic word “discover.” “Discover this new taste treat” cajoles the commercial, and one’s unconscious leaps to the lure, the same lure on a nickel and dime level that on a loftier plane drove Ponce de Leon, Sir Richard Burton, Leif Erikson, Columbus, Peary, and the Shadow, who, several years ago in the Orient learned a strange and mysterious secret: the power to cloud men’s minds.

There’s Leif Erikson.

The statue of Leif Erikson…Does that mean the Vikings—er, the Norse—discovered Boston? I thought the Pilgrims did that.” “I could give you a three-hour lecture on that topic alone.” “Please don’t.” “Suffice it to say, the Norse explored North America and even built settlements around the year 1000, almost five hundred years before Christopher Columbus. Scholars agree on that.” “That’s a relief. I hate it when scholars disagree.

At the end of the block, inside an iron fence, the bronze statue of Leif Erikson stood on his pedestal, his hand cupped over his eyes. Leif gazed toward the Charlesgate overpass as if to say Look, I discovered a highway!

You even think about picking up that cup, and we’re gonna have a problem,” the Viking said, his voice low and dangerous. But Leif Erikson didn’t know who he was messing with today.