Which 10th century explorer founded an Icelandic colony which he named 'Greenland', to encourage people to settle there?
"the coastline and claimed certain regions as his own. He then returned to Iceland to persuade people to join him in establishing a settlement on Greenland. The Icelandic sagas say that 25 ships left Iceland with Erik the Red in 985, and that only 14 of them arrived safely in Greenland. This date has been approximately confirmed by radiocarbon dating of remains at the first settlement at Brattahlid (now Qassiarsuk), which yielded a date of about 1000. According to the sagas, it was also in the year 1000 that Erik's son, Leif Eirikson, left the settlement to explore the regions"
"depicted in the Grœnlendinga saga. Otherwise, the tales are largely similar, both with heavy focuses on the exploits of Thorfinnr Karlsefni and his wife Guðríðr. Erik the Red Erik Thorvaldsson (; 950 – c. 1003), known as Erik the Red () was a Norse explorer, remembered in medieval and Icelandic saga sources as having founded the first settlement in Greenland. According to Icelandic sagas, he was born in the Jæren district of Rogaland, Norway, as the son of Þorvald Ásvaldsson. He therefore also appears, patronymically, as Erik Thorvaldsson (""Eiríkr Þorvaldsson""). The appellation ""the Red"" most likely refers to his hair"
"Thorfinn Karlsefni Thorfinn Karlsefni (Old Norse: Þorfinnr ""karlsefni"" Þórðarson, Icelandic: Þorfinnur ""karlsefni"" Þórðarson) was an Icelandic explorer. Around the year 1010 AD, he followed Leif Eriksson's route to Vinland, in a short-lived attempt to establish a permanent settlement there with his wife Guðríður ""Víðförla"" Þorbjarnardóttir and their followers. The byname ""Karlsefni"" means ""makings of a man"" according to the preface of Magnus Magnusson and Hermann Pálsson, although the Cleasby-Vigfusson dictionary glosses it as ""a thorough man"", elaborated elsewhere as a ""real man"", a ""sterling man"". Thorfinn's expeditions are documented in the ""Grœnlendinga saga"" (""Saga of the Greenlanders"") and ""Eiríks saga"
"Snæbjörn Galti Snøbjørn Galte Holmsteinsson (Old Norse: Snæbjörn Galti, c. 910– c. 978) was the first Norseman to intentionally navigate to Greenland, doing so in 978 CE. His voyage followed the accidental discovery of lands west of Iceland by Gunnbjörn Ulfsson, probably in the early 10th century. According to records from the time, Galte led the first attempt to colonize the eastern coast of Greenland. However his effort ended with disaster and he was killed in internal strife. There had been a saga about the voyage of Snøbjørn Galte (""Snæbjörn saga galti""), but it has been lost over time. Erik"
"Erik the Red's Land Erik the Red's Land () was the name given by Norwegians to an area on the coast of eastern Greenland occupied by Norway in the early 1930s. It was named after Erik the Red, the founder of the first Norse or Vikings settlements in Greenland in the 10th century. The Permanent Court of International Justice ruled against Norway in 1933, and the country subsequently abandoned its claims. The first European settlement in Greenland was established by Norse colonists from Iceland around the year 1000. There were two main Norse settlements on Greenland, but both were on"
"Greenland only a few years after the Greenland settlements were established. In 985, while sailing from Iceland to Greenland with a migration fleet consisting of 400–700 settlers and 25 other ships (14 of which completed the journey), a merchant named Bjarni Herjólfsson was blown off course, and after three days' sailing he sighted land west of the fleet. Bjarni was only interested in finding his father's farm, but he described his discovery to Leif Erikson who explored the area in more detail and planted a small settlement fifteen years later. The sagas describe three separate areas discovered during this exploration:"
"the Red (""Eiríkr Rauði"") would become the first ""permanent"" European settler. In 982 Erik the Red arrived from Iceland. According to the Saga of Erik the Red (""Eiríks saga rauða""), he spent his three years exploring the west coast of Greenland. Apparently he planned his journey much better and probably was luckier with the weather as well as maintaining better control of his crew. Snæbjörn Galti Snøbjørn Galte Holmsteinsson (Old Norse: Snæbjörn Galti, c. 910– c. 978) was the first Norseman to intentionally navigate to Greenland, doing so in 978 CE. His voyage followed the accidental discovery of lands west"
"Gunnbjörn Ulfsson Gunnbjörn Ulfsson (c. 10th century), also Gunnbjörn Ulf-Krakuson, was a Norwegian settler in Iceland. He was reportedly the first European to sight Greenland. A number of modern place names in Greenland commemorates Gunnbjörn, most notably Gunnbjørn Fjeld. The only reference to Gunnbjörn is from the Book of Settlement of Iceland (""Landnámabók""). It is stated that his sons lived in Iceland's Westfjords and a note is made that Gunnbjörnssker are named after him. Gunnbjörn was blown off course while sailing from Norway to Iceland. He and his crew sighted islands (Gunnbjörn's skerries) lying close off the coast of Greenland,"
"proclaim 9 October of each year as ""Leif Erikson Day"". Leif is the main character in two novels called ""Vinland the Good"", and the 1928 film ""The Viking"". Leif is one of the main characters in Makoto Yukimura's manga ""Vinland Saga"". Leif Erikson Leif Erikson or Leif Ericson ( 970 – c. 1020) was a Norse explorer from Iceland. He was the first known European to have set foot on continental North America (excluding Greenland), before Christopher Columbus. According to the Sagas of Icelanders, he established a Norse settlement at Vinland, tentatively identified with the Norse L'Anse aux Meadows on"
"reliable. Erik the Red (Old Norse: Eiríkr rauði), having been banished from Iceland for manslaughter, explored the uninhabited southwestern coast of Greenland during the three years of his banishment. He made plans to entice settlers to the area, naming it Greenland on the assumption that ""people would be more eager to go there because the land had a good name"". The inner reaches of one long fjord, named ""Eiriksfjord"" after him, was where he eventually established his estate ""Brattahlid"". He issued tracts of land to his followers. At its peak the colony consisted of two settlements. The Eastern was at"
"in light of the then ongoing Battle of the Atlantic. Bibliography Erik the Red's Land Erik the Red's Land () was the name given by Norwegians to an area on the coast of eastern Greenland occupied by Norway in the early 1930s. It was named after Erik the Red, the founder of the first Norse or Vikings settlements in Greenland in the 10th century. The Permanent Court of International Justice ruled against Norway in 1933, and the country subsequently abandoned its claims. The first European settlement in Greenland was established by Norse colonists from Iceland around the year 1000. There"
"when sailing from Norway to the Faroe Islands. This quickly led to a wave of colonization. Not all the settlers were successful however in the attempts to reach the island. In the 10th century, Gunnbjörn Ulfsson got lost in a storm and ended up within sight of the Greenland coast. His report spurred Erik the Red, an outlawed chieftain, to establish a settlement there in 985. While they flourished initially, these settlements eventually foundered due to changing climatic conditions (see Little Ice Age). They are believed to have survived until around 1450. Greenland's early settlers sailed westward, in search of"
"Greenland saga Grœnlendinga saga () (spelled Grænlendinga saga in modern Icelandic and translated into English as the Saga of the Greenlanders) is one of the sagas of Icelanders. Along with ""Saga of Erik the Red"", it is one of the two main literary sources of information for the Norse exploration of North America. It relates the colonization of Greenland by Erik the Red and his followers. It then describes several expeditions further west led by Erik's children and Þorfinnr ""Karlsefni"" Þórðarson. The saga is preserved in the late 14th Century ""Flateyjarbók"" manuscript and is believed to have been first written"
"a man called Thorvald, who was the father of Eirik the Red. He and Eirik left their home in Jaederen, in Norway, because of some killings and went to Iceland, which had been extensively settled by then;” Thorvald Asvaldsson Thorvald Ásvaldsson () was the father of the colonizer of Greenland, Erik the Red, and grandfather of Leif Erikson, who visited North America centuries before Christopher Columbus. Thorvald's father was Ásvald Ulfsson, whose father was Ulf Oxen-Thorisson, whose father was Oxen-Thorir, brother of Naddodd, discoverer of Iceland. Thorvald Ásvaldsson was born in Norway. He was exiled from Norway in c. 960,"
"(Eiríkur rauði Þorvaldsson), who discovered and colonized Greenland in 982, and his son Leif Eriksson (Leifur Eiríksson), who introduced Christianity to Greenland and discovered the North American continent (""c."" 1000). Two famous patriots and statesmen were Bishop Jón Arason, who led the fight for liberty against the power of the Danish king, and Jón Sigurðsson, Iceland's national hero, champion of the fight for independence. Vigdís Finnbogadóttir served four consecutive terms as president from 1980 to 1996, becoming the first female elected to the presidency of any republic. Prominent writers were Ari Þorgilsson, father of Icelandic historical writing; Snorri Sturluson, author"
"Greenland, and was said to be ""a man of considerable stature"". He was part of an exodus from Iceland accompanying Erik the Red, who led an expedition of colonists in 25 ships around AD 985. Landing on Greenland's southwest coast, Erik and his other kinsmen almost invariably chose to settle further inland away from the open Labrador Sea, at the heads of the fjords where the land was better suited to farming. By contrast, Herjolf's decision to establish himself at the end of a fjord directly facing the open ocean near Greenland's southernmost tip suggests that his primary intention was"
"trees and took them to Greenland, because Greenland possesses only one small forest and normally relies on driftwood or imports for lumber. The ""Saga of the Greenlanders"" also tells of 160 men and women who settled in Markland for winter protection led by Thorfinn Karlsefni (""Þorfinnr Karlsefni Þórðarson""), c. 1010. The ""Saga of Erik the Red"" indicates that Markland is south of Helluland, north of Vinland off ""Kjalarnes"", north-west of an island called Bjarney, and with a country that Karlsefni thinks may be Hvítramannaland somewhere opposite its coast. , Ari Marsson discovered the land six days' sailing west of Ireland."
"Thorvald Asvaldsson Thorvald Ásvaldsson () was the father of the colonizer of Greenland, Erik the Red, and grandfather of Leif Erikson, who visited North America centuries before Christopher Columbus. Thorvald's father was Ásvald Ulfsson, whose father was Ulf Oxen-Thorisson, whose father was Oxen-Thorir, brother of Naddodd, discoverer of Iceland. Thorvald Ásvaldsson was born in Norway. He was exiled from Norway in c. 960, during the reign of King Haakon the Good (son of Harald Finehair), “because of some killings.” He left with his son Erik to northwest Iceland, where he died before 980. According to the ""Grænlendinga Saga,"" “There was"
"have discovered Greenland after being exiled from Iceland for murder in 982. Three years later in 986, Erik the Red returned with 14 surviving ships (as 25 set out on the expedition).Two areas along Greenland's southwest coast were colonized by Norse settlers, including Erik the Red, around 986. The land was at best marginal for Norse pastoral farming. The settlers arrived during a warm phase, when short-season crops such as rye and barley could be grown. Sheep and hardy cattle were also raised for food, wool, and hides. Their main export was walrus ivory, which was traded for iron and"
"Narsarmijit (Friedrichsthal) south of Nanortalik. Norrøne Texts: Herjulf Bårdsson Herjólfr Bárðarson is one of the primary settlers in the History of Greenland. First he lived in Iceland on Drepstokki. He was the son of Bárð Herjólfsson and married to Þorgerður. His son Bjarni Herjúlfsson was the first European sighting the American continent in 986, after getting off course. Herjólfr was one of Eiríkur rauði's liegemen, who left Iceland with 25 Viking ships in 985 to settle Greenland. Of these 25 only 14 made it to Greenland, among them Herjólfr's. According to the Icelandic ""Landnámabók"", his family settled at Herjólfsfjörð on"
"at the University of Manitoba and an expert in atmospheric refraction and mirages, argued that the skerries Gunnbjörn saw could be explained as the sighting of Greenland's coast via the refraction of a superior mirage. Such phenomena were not unknown to the Norse, who called them ""hillingar"". Gunnbjörn Ulfsson Gunnbjörn Ulfsson (c. 10th century), also Gunnbjörn Ulf-Krakuson, was a Norwegian settler in Iceland. He was reportedly the first European to sight Greenland. A number of modern place names in Greenland commemorates Gunnbjörn, most notably Gunnbjørn Fjeld. The only reference to Gunnbjörn is from the Book of Settlement of Iceland (""Landnámabók"")."
"by the Norse. A period of warm temperatures from around 1000-1200 enabled the establishment of a Norse outpost in Greenland in 985, which survived for some 400 years as the most westerly oupost of Christendom. From here, Norseman attempted their short-lived European colony in North America, five centuries before Columbus. In the 10th century another marauding group of warriors swept through Europe, the Magyars. They eventually settled in what is today Hungary, converted to Christianity and became the ancestors of the Hungarian people. A West Slavic people, the Poles, formed a unified state by the 10th century and having adopted"
"groups went extinct, and others changed quite quickly. The name and cultures that Europeans recorded for the natives were not necessarily the same as the ones they had used a few generations before, or the ones in use today. There was limited contact between North American people and the outside world before 1492. Several theoretical contacts have been proposed, but the earliest physical evidence comes from the Norse or Vikings. Erik the Red founded a colony on Greenland in 985 CE. Erik's son Leif Eriksson is believed to have reached the Island of Newfoundland circa 1000, naming the discovery Vinland."
"Herjulf Bårdsson Herjólfr Bárðarson is one of the primary settlers in the History of Greenland. First he lived in Iceland on Drepstokki. He was the son of Bárð Herjólfsson and married to Þorgerður. His son Bjarni Herjúlfsson was the first European sighting the American continent in 986, after getting off course. Herjólfr was one of Eiríkur rauði's liegemen, who left Iceland with 25 Viking ships in 985 to settle Greenland. Of these 25 only 14 made it to Greenland, among them Herjólfr's. According to the Icelandic ""Landnámabók"", his family settled at Herjólfsfjörð on Herjólfsnes peninsula south of Brattahlíð, near modern"
"from the north'), who expanded to England, Sicily, and other Mediterranean islands. Apart from Britain and Ireland, Norwegian Vikings established settlements in largely uninhabited regions. The first known permanent Norwegian settler in Iceland was Ingólfur Arnarson. In the year 874 he settled in Reykjavík. After his expulsion from Iceland Erik the Red discovered Greenland, a name he chose in hope of attracting Icelandic settlers. Viking settlements were established in the sheltered fjords of the southern and western coast. Erik's relative Leif Eriksson later discovered North America. During the 17th and 18th centuries, many Norwegians emigrated to the Netherlands, particularly Amsterdam."
"Norse settlements in Greenland around the year 1000, nearly five centuries before Columbus. It is generally accepted that the Norse settlers in Greenland founded the settlement of L'Anse aux Meadows in Vinland, their name for what is now Newfoundland, Canada. Just how much they explored further past the Canadian Maritime Provinces in Canada has been a matter of debate for the past hundred years amongst romantic and ethnic nationalists as well as historians. In any case, the settlements were abandoned after a short time. After the Vikings, the first Icelanders to migrate to North America were three Mormons who left"
"was unintentional, as it was said that his ship was blown off-course on the way to Greenland. Erikson established settlements in what is now modern day Newfoundland, Canada as well as what is now Maine in the United States. In the year 999 c. Erikson's father, Erik the Red, was one of the first Europeans to establish colonies in Greenland. Iceland was considered the first European country to create colonies in North America and Greenland. Greenland did not colonize, however, it was colonized by many different Scandinavian countries. Leif Erikson of Iceland was one of the most famous of the"
"History of Greenland The first humans are thought to have arrived in Greenland around 2500 BC. Their descendants apparently died out and were succeeded by several other groups migrating from continental North America. There has been no evidence discovered that Greenland was known to Europeans until the 10th century, when Icelandic Vikings settled on its southwestern coast, which seems to have been uninhabited when they arrived. The ancestors of the Inuit Greenlanders who live there today appear to have migrated there later, around 1200 AD, from northwestern Greenland. While the Inuit survived in the icy world of the Little Ice"
"from Shetland. Naddod has distant relations to Erik the Red and his son, Leif Erikson. Naddodd Naddod ( or ""Naddaðr"", , , literally ""studded"") was a Norse-Faroese Viking who is credited with the discovery of Iceland. Naddod was also one of the first settlers on the Faroe Islands after Grímur Kamban became the first to settle there around 825. Naddod was born in Agder, which comprises the two Norwegian counties of Aust-Agder and Vest-Agder. Landnámabók, a medieval Icelandic manuscript, describes in considerable detail the settlement (Icelandic: ""landnám"") of Iceland by the Norse in the 9th and 10th century. According to"
"Norsemen settled the uninhabited southern part of Greenland beginning in the 10th century, having previously settled Iceland to escape persecution from the King of Norway and his central government. These Norsemen would later set sail from Greenland and Iceland, with Leif Erikson becoming the first known European to reach North America nearly 500 years before Columbus reached the Caribbean islands. Inuit peoples arrived in the 13th century. Though under continuous influence of Norway and Norwegians, Greenland was not formally under the Norwegian crown until 1262. The Norse colonies disappeared in the late 15th century when Norway was hit by the"
"conditions—similar to those of Iceland—that promised growth and future prosperity. According to the ""Saga of Erik the Red"", he spent his three years of exile exploring this land. The first winter he spent on the island of Eiriksey, the second winter he passed in Eiriksholmar (close to Hvarfsgnipa). In the final summer he explored as far north as Snaefell and into Hrafnsfjord. When Erik returned to Iceland after his exile had expired, he is said to have brought with him stories of ""Greenland"". Erik deliberately gave the land a more appealing name than ""Iceland"" in order to lure potential settlers."
"Leif Erikson Leif Erikson or Leif Ericson ( 970 – c. 1020) was a Norse explorer from Iceland. He was the first known European to have set foot on continental North America (excluding Greenland), before Christopher Columbus. According to the Sagas of Icelanders, he established a Norse settlement at Vinland, tentatively identified with the Norse L'Anse aux Meadows on the northern tip of Newfoundland in modern-day Canada. Later archaeological evidence suggests that Vinland may have been the areas around the Gulf of St. Lawrence and that the L'Anse aux Meadows site was a ship repair station. Leif was the son"
"Gudrid Thorbjarnardóttir Gudrid Thorbjarnardóttir (Icelandic: Guðríður ""víðförla"" Þorbjarnardóttir; born in 980 - ?) was a Norse explorer, born at Laugarbrekka in Snæfellsnes, Iceland. She appears in the ""Saga of Erik the Red"" and the ""Saga of the Greenlanders"", known collectively as the ""Vinland sagas"". She and her husband Þorfinnur Karlsefni, led an expedition to Vinland where their son Snorri Þorfinnsson was born, believed to be the first European birth in the Americas outside of Greenland. In Iceland, Gudrid is known by her byname ""víðförla"" (lit. ""wide-fared"" or ""far-travelled""). As recorded in ""The Saga of Eirik the Red"", Gudrid was the"