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Greenland's first experience of hype happened a millennium ago when Erik the Red arrived from Iceland with a small party of Norse­men, aka Vikings. Erik was on the lam (from the Old Norse word ...

All the detail about Norse trips to Vinland (as the Norse called North America) comes from two accounts: The Saga of Erik the Red and The Saga of the Greenlanders. These epic Viking tales were ...

A statue of a Viking looms over a fjord at Qassiarsuk, site of Greenland’s first Norse settlement, founded by Erik the Red. Ciril Jazbec Sissarluttoq, just southwest of the Inuit settlement of ...

Viking chief Thorvald dies from a mortal combat wound. He realizes his son Erloff is not a worthy successor, but his will divides his property equally between him and Erik, the valiant son of his ...

Over a thousand years ago, the Viking leader Erik the Red discovered a new land after being exiled for murdering his neighbor. To entice his fellow Vikings to settle the icy island, he called it ...

A Viking called Erik the Red discovered Greenland. It was Erick’s son, Leif Erikson, who sailed even further west and became the first European to visit the Americas. Leif had heard stories of ...

around 1000 a.d. The Saga of the Greenlanders identifies the speaker and the Viking expedition’s leader as Thorvald Erikson, the son of Erik the Red, the Viking explorer of Greenland.