Illustration
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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Original image by Arngrímur Jónsson. Uploaded by Emma Groeneveld, published on 29 March 2018. The copyright holder has published this content under the following license: Public Domain. This item is in the public domain, and can be used, copied, and modified without any restrictions. Please note that content linked from this page may have different licensing terms.
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APA Style
Jónsson, A. (2018, March 29). Erik the Red. World History Encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://www.worldhistory.org/image/8494/erik-the-red/
Chicago Style
Jónsson, Arngrímur. "Erik the Red." World History Encyclopedia. Last modified March 29, 2018. https://www.worldhistory.org/image/8494/erik-the-red/.
MLA Style
Jónsson, Arngrímur. "Erik the Red." World History Encyclopedia. World History Encyclopedia, 29 Mar 2018. Web. 22 Feb 2025.
