Eric the Red (born c. 950), Viking rover and founder of the first Scandinavian settlement in Greenland, was one of the early Viking explorers of North America. Born in Norway about 950, Eric Thorvaldsson, who is known as Eric the Red, left that country...

Erik the Red Born c. 950, Stavanger, Norway Died c. 1004, Greenland Erik the Red was a Norse explorer whose most important voyage began as the result of a violent feud. He was banished from his home in Iceland for three years as punishment for killing...

c. 950-1004 Icelandic Explorer First European to land on Greenland, Erik the Red gave that forbidding island its somewhat deceptive name, and founded a European colony there that would remain operative for more than three centuries. His son, Leif...

Erik the Red (950–c. 1003) (Old Norse: Eiríkr rauði; Icelandic: Eiríkur rauði; Norwegian: Eirik Raude; (Faroese: Eirikur (hin) reyði) founded the first Nordic settlement in Greenland. Born in the Jæren district of Rogaland, Norway as the son of...

37 386 Es ist eine Story, die so unglaublich ist und so dramatisch klingt, dass es verwundert, warum sie nicht längst schon verfilmt wurde. Es ist die wahre, vom Leben geschriebene Geschichte der österreichischen Skirennläuferin Erika Schinegger, die 1966 bei den Weltmeisterschaften in...

STOCKHOLM Erik Krikortz MODERNA MUSEET "The day of individual happiness has passed" would be the perfect catchphrase for Erik Krikortz's attempt to measure collective happiness, had it been he who said it, rather than Adolf Hitler. Happiness has long been a...