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
They probably made land, avoiding icebergs, at southwestern Greenland, which had been discovered by Gunnbjorn and settled in 985-86 A.D, by Eric the Red.
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
They came of very good stock, and the family traced their ancestry back to the great Leif Ericsson, son of Eric the Red, who had been the Norse discoverer of America.
From Historic Boyhoods by Holland, Rupert Sargent
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