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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- Norwegian navigator who explored and named Greenland and founded its first Norse settlement (c. 985).
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History: Eric the Red was a Norse hero and explorer.
15,000 Baby Names Bruce Lansky 2010
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History: Eric the Red was a Norse hero and explorer.
15,000 Baby Names Bruce Lansky 2010
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History: Eric the Red was a Norse hero and explorer.
15,000 Baby Names Bruce Lansky 2010
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History: Eric the Red was a Norse hero and explorer.
15,000 Baby Names Bruce Lansky 2010
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They are cooler than the "Medieval Warm Period" about 1,000 years ago when Eric the Red and his Icelandic Viking tribe settled on grasslands of Greenland's southwestern coast, and much warmer than about 400 years ago when the Northern Hemisphere plunged into depths of a "Little Ice Age" not a true Ice Age.
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He was named after Eric the Red, a Viking explorer who settled Greenland around 980.
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So Eric the Red was a spin doctor as well as everything else?
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This is the time in our history that the ice caps melted in Greenland, Eric the Red and his family set up their home there for 300 years.
Think Progress » Inhofe: Don’t Worry About Global Warming Because ‘God’s Still Up There’ 2006
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He was named after Eric the Red, a Viking explorer who settled Greenland around 980.
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Leif set out in the early summer of the year 1000 to carry the new religion to his father, Eric the Red, to his father's people, and to his neighbors.
Introductory American History Elbert Jay Benton
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