Eric the Red
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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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
Eddie Albert is spectacular, a figure to strike terror into any suitor's heart; his character is a combination of George Babbitt and Eric the Red.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
There are other traces of Vineland, earlier than the manuscript of the Saga of Eric the Red.
From The True Story Book by Lang, Andrew
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