Thorvald Ásvaldsson was born in Norway. He fathered Erik the Red with a woman whose name is unknown.[1] He was exiled from Norway in c. 960, during the reign of King Haakon the Good (son of Harald Fairhair), "because of some killings." He left with his son Erik to northwest Iceland, where he died before 980. According to the "Grænlendinga Saga" (Saga of the Greenlanders), "There was a man called Thorvald, who was the father of Eirik the Red. He and Eirik left their home in Jaederen, in Norway, because of some killings and went to Iceland, which had been extensively settled by then;"[2]
References
^Earle Rige Jr. (2009). The Life and Times of Erik the Red. Mitchell Lane. p. 16. ISBN9781584157014.
^"Grænlendinga Saga." The Vinland Sagas: The Norse Discovery of America. Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1973. 47–105.
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