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Eric the Red

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Er·ic the Red  (rk) fl. tenth century.
Norwegian navigator who explored and named Greenland and founded its first settlement (c. 985).
Eric the Red [ˈɛrɪk]
n
(Biographies / Eric the Red (?940-?1010) M, Norse, TRAVEL AND EXPLORATION: navigator) ?940-?1010 ad, Norse navigator: discovered and colonized Greenland; father of Leif Ericson


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Departing from the site in southwestern Greenland where the explorer's father, Eric the Red, had a farm, the knarr will sail about 600 miles up the Greenland coast before crossing the Davis Strait to Baffin Island.
IN HISTORY'S WAKE : REPLICA OF VIKING SHIP TO RETRACE LEIF ERICSSON'S ... by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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