Eric the Red

American  

noun

1. a.d. c950–1003, Norse mariner: explorer and colonizer of Greenland c985.

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Eric the Red British  

/ ˈɛrɪk /

noun

1. ?940–?1010 _ad , Norse navigator: discovered and colonized Greenland; father of Leif Ericson

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Example Sentences

Biographies of the chef include tales of Child sleeping outdoors on the second-floor porch and romping through the lawn with her younger siblings and their Airedale dog named Eric the Red.

From Los Angeles Times

Revealed in the journal Gondwana Research, the fossil – which consists of a single vertebra – was discovered in 2015 at a dig site called Eric the Red West near Cape Otway, about three hours’ drive south-west of Melbourne.

From The Guardian

Further expeditions to the Eric the Red West site have been thwarted twice this year – first by the bushfire crisis and then Covid-19.

From The Guardian

Gudrid Thorbjarnardóttir, an Icelandic woman, joined Eric the Red’s travels to Greenland in the 11th century, and later told the pope about it.

From Slate

“Fourteen hundred and ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue,” I repeated, “but I’m sure you know, because it’s been said, he was centuries behind Eric the Red.”

From New York Times