Everything you need to know about Vikings by Adrian Blancas (best books to read ever txt) 📕

Leif the Lucky

• Birthday is unknown.
• Has two brothers; though only one was important: Thorvald
• Son of ‘Eirik the Red’
• Discovered New Foundland
• Sailed from Greenland in 1000 A.D.
• The Eirik saga (Saga of Erik) says that once in New Foundland, Leif was converted to Christianity by the Norwegian king Olaf I Tryggvason
• Called a region (maybe Nova Scotia) Vinland because of the wild grapes he found there
• In 1000 A.D, Leif was commissioned by Olaf I to urge Greenland settlers to practice Christianity.
• Further adventures to Vinland were lead by Thorvald


Eirik the Red


• Birthday is unknown
• Real name was Eirik Thorvald
• Discovered Greenland
• Was exiled from Norway for murdering a man in a brawl
• The exile length was 3 years
• After the 3 years, the Vikings did not want to go back; they felt as if they were born in Greenland
• Sailed in 982 A.D. with his livestock
• Was unable to approach Greenland’s coast because of the drift ice
• Rounded the southern tip of Greenland
• Settled a place close to Julianehåb (Qaqortoq)
• On his return, he stopped in Iceland in 986
• Settlements in Greenland remained in contact with Norway until the 1500s when communications stopped for a century

Publication Date: 10-06-2010

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