Erik the Red

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Erik the Red or Eric the Red (950 – c. 1003), byname of Erik Thorvaldsson, Old Norse Eirik Rauð, Icelandic Eiríkur Rauði, was founder of the first European settlement on Greenland (c. 985) and the father of Leif Erikson, discoverer of Vinland.

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