Erik the Red's Land
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Erik the Red's Land was the name given by Norwegians to an area on the coast of eastern Greenland occupied by Norway in the early 1930s. It was named after Erik the Red, the founder of the first Norse
Raising of the Norwegian flag at Myggbukta, Eirik Raudes Land.
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Greenland is an autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark and is the largest of the kingdom's three constituent parts by land area, the others being Denmark proper and the Faroe Islands. Citizens
Erik the Red's Land
…Erik the Red's Land (Norwegian: Eirik Raudes Land) was the name given by Norwegians to an area on the coast of eastern Greenland occupied by Norway in the early 1930s. It was named after Erik the Red, the founder of the first Norse or Viking settlements in Greenland in the 10th…
The last written records of the Norse Greenlanders are from a 1408 marriage at Hvalsey Church, which is now the best-preserved Norse ruin.
The Cantino planisphere, completed by an unknown cartographer in 1502, depicts Greenland as a Portuguese territory claimed by King Manuel I.
Summer Night Off the Greenland Coast Circa Year 1000, by Carl Rasmussen, 1875
Hans Egede (1686–1758), Lutheran missionary, credited with revitalising Denmark's relationship with Greenland