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Eric the Red (c. 950–1010)

Allegedly the first European to find Greenland. According to a 13th-century saga, he was the son of a Norwegian chieftain, and was banished from Iceland in about 982 for murder. He then sailed westward and discovered a land that he called Greenland.
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