Valhalla, the brief yet intriguing appearance of Erik the Red leaves many questions unanswered about his true legacy. While ...
Viking chief Thorvald dies from a mortal combat wound. He realizes his son Erloff is not a worthy successor, but his will divides his property equally between him and Erik, the valiant son of his ...
Gudrid’s story is best known from the “Saga of Erik the Red,” which details her remarkable travels. When she was only 15, she traveled to Greenland with her father, Thorbjorn, as a Viking ...
A Viking called Erik the Red discovered Greenland. It was Erick’s son, Leif Erikson, who sailed even further west and became the first European to visit the Americas. Leif had heard stories of ...
around 1000 a.d. The Saga of the Greenlanders identifies the speaker and the Viking expedition’s leader as Thorvald Erikson, the son of Erik the Red, the Viking explorer of Greenland.