Eric The Red
Yuto Ota
Biographical
Facts
Eric
the Red was born in Norway. he went to Iceland with his father because his
father was exiled to Iceland. Eric the Red was going to go to a second
expedition after finding Greenland but when he was going to the ship he fell off
a horse and then refused to go on the expedition. He died at 1003 to 1004.
Major
Achievements
Eric
was the second to see Greenland but he was the first one to set foot on the
land. The first person to see Greenland was Gunnbjorn Ulfsson a Norwegian. Eric
called the new land Greenland to attract other people in Iceland to come. Eric
also explored Greenland for three years. Then he spent the winter there and when
his exile was over he went back to Iceland and told every one about Greenland
Country
The
Vikings were mostly from Norway, Denmark, and Sweden. The reason why Eric went
on a journey to Greenland is because he was exiled from Iceland and he also
heard that Gunnbjorn Ulfsson saw a land west of Iceland. Greenland had not so
good farming land.
Impact on the New World
The
religion of Eric the Red was Christian. The settlers
who went to Greenland
died of episemics or starvation in Greenland.
But he brought many people to Greenland so that Greenland developed. Eric had a
son who discovered Vinland.
Personal
Reaction
I think that it was a coincidence when I found out that Leif Ericsson was the son of Eric the Red. I also think he was very brave because you will never know what will happen on the journey to the New Land (Greenland). I really think that Eric and his father are a family because his father murdered a man and was sent to Iceland and then Eric killed two other men in Iceland and he was exiled from the country for three years.
BibliographyBooks:
Explorer
before Columbus
Scholastic
atlas of Exploration
The
Earliest Explorers
Encyclopedia
The
New Book of Knowledge
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