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
Somewhere in the grey Atlantic their Norwegian outlaw leader Eric the Red expected to find a new land.
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
There was Eric the Red, a bold navigator of Iceland, who had sailed west to Greenland, and planted there a colony that grew and thrived.
From Discoverers and Explorers by Shaw, Edward R. (Edward Richard)
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