![]() At its peak, the Greenland colony had an estimated 5,000 residents. Several years later, Erik returned to Iceland and organized a fleet of 25 ships that carried colonists back to Greenland (only 14 vessels survived the journey), where they founded two main settlements in 986. After leaving home, he sailed west to a vast, uncharted island he eventually dubbed Greenland in an effort to entice future settlers. There, Erik himself was accused of manslaughter, leading to his exile from Iceland around 982. ![]() After Erik’s father was banished from Norway for killing someone, he fled with his family to Iceland. ![]() Erik the Red: Founded Greenland’s First Norse Settlementīorn Erik Thorvaldsson in Norway, Erik the Red earned his nickname for his red hair and possibly his hot temper. More than a thousand years after Rollo’s death, Allied troops during World War II landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944, beginning the liberation of Western Europe from Nazi Germany’s control. William the Conqueror, as he became known, went on to serve as king of England until 1087. In 1066, another one of Rollo’s descendants, William, duke of Normandy, led a successful invasion of England. Rollo later expanded his control of the region, and around the time he died, in about 928, was succeeded by his son, William Longsword. Claire-sur-Epte, Charles the Simple, king of the West Franks, gave Rollo part of the area now called Normandy (for Northman’s land) in an effort to have him protect it from other Viking raiders. This Viking leader, whose origins were either Danish or Norwegian, began conducting raids on France in the ninth century.
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