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Erik the Red
Erik the Red was a Norse explorer who, outlawed from Iceland for killings, explored the coast of Greenland and around 985 led settlers there, founding the Eastern Settlement near modern Qaqortoq. He farmed at Brattahlíð and was the leading chieftain of Norse Greenland. His son Leif Erikson sailed on to North America. The colonies he founded lasted almost five centuries.
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