Erik the Red

Arngrímur Jónsson

by Arngrímur Jónsson
published on 29 March 2018

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Woodcut frontispiece depicting the Norse Viking Erik the Red, founder of the first Viking settlement in Greenland c. 985 CE, as found in the 1688 CE Icelandic publication of Arngrímur Jónsson's Gronlandia (Greenland). It is presently kept in the Fiske Icelandic Collection.

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Jónsson, A. (2018, March 29). Erik the Red. World History Encyclopedia. https://www.worldhistory.org/image/8494/erik-the-red/

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Jónsson, Arngrímur. "Erik the Red." World History Encyclopedia, March 29, 2018. https://www.worldhistory.org/image/8494/erik-the-red/.

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Jónsson, Arngrímur. "Erik the Red." World History Encyclopedia, 29 Mar 2018, https://www.worldhistory.org/image/8494/erik-the-red/.

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