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...