Eric the Red
Americannoun
noun
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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 ● Sep. 10, 2024
One of these Vikings was called Eric the Red because of his red hair.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2012
Not because his new land was briefly luxuriant in summer, but because "people would like better to come there if it had a good name," Eric the Red called it Greenland.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Norse explorer Eric the Red, who landed on the island in the 10th century, named the grim, gray island Greenland in hopes of luring settlers from Scandinavia and Iceland.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is known that Eric the Red discovered Greenland in the year 982 and that 3 years later settlers went there from the Norse colony in Iceland.
From Man, Past and Present by Alfred Court Haddon
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