Eric the Red
(late 10th century AD)

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The terrain of Greenland is covered mainly with glaciers and barren rock, with only a few patches of tundra and habitable land. Eric named it Greenland on the principle that colonists would be eager to go there if the country had an attractive name.

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Norwegian navigator. Brought up in exile in Iceland, he led an expedition westward around 982 and discovered Greenland, where he established a Viking colony a few years later.

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