So Eric the Red got on his ship and he sailed across the ocean blue and he landed in what today is called Greenland, which shouldn't be called Greenland because it's a big rock of ice. Eric the Red actually named it Greenland in order to attract settlers to come and when they came they found a very harsh existence in this land known as Greenland. And eventually his son, Leif Erikson, is going to go even farther west with stories that there's land to the west and he's going to land in Newfoundland. That's right, North America. Take that Christopher Columbus. And for about a decade, Leif Erikson had a colony in Newfoundland, maybe even farther south and to the west of Newfoundland into North America. But eventually he's going to come back to Europe, actually as a Christian, to try to unite the Vikings, which isn't going to work really well.