Valhalla, the brief yet intriguing appearance of Erik the Red leaves many questions unanswered about his true legacy. While the series portrays Erik as a formidable leader in Greenland, the real story ...

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.