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(Created page with "thumb|When all of Iceland is mad at me I pack all my stuff up and walk away really slowly till they forgive me. '''Erik''' was a nomadic Viking blessed with prodigious strength... and cursed with a fiery temper that led some to call him '''Erik the Red'''. ==Fiction== {{RU|Nearly two thousand years ago}}, Erik's family was exiled from Norway. With his wife Thjodhilde and son Leif, they settled in Iceland, where...") |
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{{RU|Nearly two thousand years ago}}, Erik's family was exiled from Norway. With his wife [[Thjodhilde]] and son [[Leif Eriksson|Leif]], they settled in Iceland, where Erik was determined to build a farm on the land for his father's sake. He set about building their homestead single-handedly.
When Erik had to take a trip to his brother's for some tools, he left his wooden beams in the care of [[Erik the Red's neighbour|his new neighbour]]. Returning a few days later, he swore by the great [[Thor]] on seeing his wood was gone. He found his neighbour and his sons chopping up the
The next morning, Erik and his family prepared a boat, manned by a few of his faithful friends who now called him Erik the Red because of the blood on his hands. Erik followed the legend of [[Gunnbjorn]], passed down by the old folk of Iceland, to a fertile green land far overseas to the west. Together, the Vikings created a small colony on the landmass they called Greenland.
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