18. Erik The Red - The Viking Outlaw Who Discovered Greenland

The Stolen Goods: A look into the history of banditry and swashbucklery

Over 500 years before Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean Blue Erik Thorvaldson, AKA Erik The Red would commit a crime branding him an outlaw that would set the wheels in motion for him to discover Greenland and his Son Leif to become the first European to set foot on North American soil. But who was Erik the Red and what made a man an outlaw in Norwegian Culture in the 900's. and what led to The Norseman beating Columbus to the punch so many years before.
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