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The Norwegian Thorvald Arvaldson (born 925) has been declared an outlaw and flees Norway with his son Erik (the Red)
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Thorvald and Erik settle on Drangar in Iceland after a hard voyage across the North Sea
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Woman sprang pantyhose legs
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Thorvald dies. Erik marries Tjodhil. They have a son, Leif, in the year 975
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Leif is taught sailing and fighting techniques, about the sagas – and he learned to carve runes.
Erik is quarrelsome and becomes friends with his neighbor
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Erik takes back his high-ranking supporters by force and kills his friend’s two sons
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The Thing sentences Erik to three years as an outlaw for murder and violence against neighbors
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Erik sails west with family and slaves
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He finds Greenland – a fertile land with enough grass for his livestock.
He establishes Brattahlid
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Leif goes on a trading trip to Scotland. On the trip he falls in love with Thorgunna
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On a journey to Norway, Leif and his followers are baptized into the Christian faith
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Thorgunna comes to Greenland with her and Leif’s son
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Erik does not want to be baptized
He sacrifices a goat to the Aesir
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Tjodhild is baptized and Erik must build a church at Brathalid
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Erik equips a boat to explore the sea
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His horse stumbles on the way to the ship
Erik takes it as a sign and lets Leif travel instead
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Leif sails west and finds North America which he calls Vinland
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Ginnungagab means gaping void according to the Norse creation myth
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Ginnungagab
In the 15th century, cartographers wanted to investigate where the creation myth originated and whether Ginnungagab could be located geographically – the sea between Greenland and Vinland
Suggested by Adam of Bremen as early as around 1100
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Leif and his crew winter in Vinland
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Leif returns to Greenland. On the way home he rescues a group of shipwrecked people
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Among the shipwrecked was Gudrid, who later gave birth to her son Snorri in Vinland. Gudrid was more traveled than any other woman of that time. After her journey to Rome, she settled in Iceland
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