Fifteen years after arriving in Greenland, the Norse once again pressed westward. Between A.D. 987 and 1003, Leif Eriksson set out to visit lands previously sighted by another Greenlander blown off course. He sailed northwest and then south along the North American coast. This was the first of several voyages recounted in the sagas of Vinland, which Leif named "wine land" for its wild grapes. The Greenlanders explored but never settled here, for they faced competition--these lands were already inhabited!