Erik the Red
950–1003
explorer and founder of the first viking settlement in Greenland
conquistador · warrior · seafarer
Born in Jæren
Contemporaries
People who walked the earth at the same time as Erik the Red:
- Avicenna (980–1037)
- Murasaki Shikibu (970–)
- Ferdowsi (940–1020)
- Al-Biruni (973–1048)
- Ibn al-Haytham (965–1039)
- Leif Erikson (972–1020)
- Otto I the Great (912–973)
- Farabi (870–951)
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