The next explorer was a Norwegian murderer called Eirík the Red. The Íslendingabók says Eirík was from Breiðafjǫrðr.
[39] Landnámabók does not tell us where Eirík was from, only that he lived in and had to leave Jæderen, Norway
[40] (“some thirty miles south of Stavanger in Norway”
[41]), because of involvement with his father in committing murder.
[42] They initially settled in Hornstrands, Iceland (Figure 10). Tracing Eirík’s interior travel of Iceland is beyond our scope here. After another murder, Eirík was ordered to leave Iceland. Eirík left for Greenland and landed at Blaserk (Figure 11).
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