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Examples
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Ironically, it was not the disappearance of the Norse Greenlanders that intrigued me, but the powerful image of the pagan seeress, Thorbjorg, giving prophecy in Eiriks Saga, one of the Vinland Sagas that recounts the establishment of the settlements.
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There were bone tools and spindle whorls carved by hand, occasionally bits of cloth, the single partition in Eirik the Reds byre that was actually made of a whales shoulder blade, all illustrating the settlers daily experience and industry as no broad survey could.
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Eirik Johnson for The Wall Street Journal Craigie On Main: Food & Wine magazine named Tony Maws one of the best new chefs in America, and his burger one of the country's top 25.
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The germ of her character came from an actual artifact, a runestick found in Narsaq, Greenland, not far from where Eirik the Reds homestead once lay.
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Photographs by Eirik Johnson for The Wall Street Journal Liberty Hotel: If jail is bad, why does this prison-turned-luxury hotel feel so good?
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The feeling was unquestionable, as I walked alone through volcanic scree in the shadow of the Snaefellsjokull glacier in Iceland or sat on the ruined edge of the longhouse that had once been Eirik the Reds home.
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The stone wall that Eirik built begins there, running down in the direction of the white house, and then left.
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Still, there was nothing more transforming than actually standing in my characters footsteps, in the middle of the tiny horseshoe shaped outline of Thjoldhildes church overlooking Eirik the Reds longhouse ruins in Greenland.
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Those who worship symbols will be titillated by the fact that Oxen Island appears at fi rst to be E-shaped, E for Eirik, but it is not, and Oxen Island did not quite fi t Eirik.
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It is logical enough from the various mentions in the sagas: that Einarsfjord was originally settled by a chieftain named Einar, that Einarsfjord is the location of the farm Gardar, and that Freydis Eiriksdatter, Eirik the Reds illegitimate daughter, married a man called Torvard primarily to inherit the vast, prosperous homestead Gardar.
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