In 982, a Viking called Eric the Red sailed west in search of new land.

982年，一个名叫红发埃里克的维京人向西航行，以期寻找新大陆。

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The son of Eric the Red, named Leif Ericson, had heard rumors about land west of Greenland.

红胡子埃里克的儿子——列夫·埃里克听说了关于格陵兰岛西部岛屿的传言。

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Not long after Eric the Red had landed in Greenland a man called Biarni set sail from Iceland in search of Eric's party.

埃里克?雷德登上格陵兰岛后不久，一个叫比阿尼的人就从冰岛起航寻找埃里克一行人。

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However, this part of Greenland was the very spot from which Leif Ericson, son of Eric the Red, left for America, and set Mr Ingstad on the trail of Vinland.

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They are cooler than the "Medieval Warm Period" about 1, 000 years ago when Eric the Red and his Icelandic Viking tribe settled on grasslands of Greenland's southwestern coast, and much warmer than about 400 years ago when the Northern Hemisphere plunged into depths of a "Little Ice Age" (not a true Ice Age).

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