biography
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Erik the Red
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originally Erik Thorvaldsson
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (10th-c)
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| biography:
| Norwegian sailor who explored the Greenland coast and founded the Norse colonies there (985). His son Leif Eriksson landed in ‘Vinland’, often identified as America (1000). Both men are the subject of Icelandic sagas. |
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