Eric the Red
noun
1.
a.d. c950–1003, Norse mariner: explorer and colonizer of Greenland c985.
/ˈɛrɪk/
noun
1.
?940–?1010 ad, Norse navigator: discovered and colonized Greenland; father of Leif Ericson
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