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Erik The Red

Erik The Red

Norwegian viking who lived between AD950 and AD1000. He established the first known Norse settlement on Greenland.

Name:
Erik The Red
Publisher:
Real name:
Eiríkr Þorvaldsson
Aliases:
  • Eiríkr Þorvaldsson
  • Erik Thorvaldsson
  • Erik Röde
Birth date:
None
Gender:
Male
Powers:
First issue:
Jumbo Comics (1938) #36
cover

It is amazing that his name has passed to us through the ages which may be in part to his fathering the even more heralded Leif Erikson the famous Icelandic explorer.

Issues

January 1943

Volumes

1940

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