Eiríks þáttr rauða

Eiríks þáttr rauða ('The Tale of Erik the Red') is a short story about Erik the Red, the conversion of his son, Leif Erikson, to Christianity, and the Norse discovery of North America by Bjarni Herjólfsson.^[1]

The tale is preserved in the Flateyjarbók, in columns 221–223, where it is interpolated into the Saga of Óláfr Tryggvason.^[2][1] It is commonly combined and translated with Grœnlendinga þáttr (I) as the Saga of the Greenlanders.

English translations of Eiríks þáttr rauða can be found in:

• Reeves, Arthur Middleton, The Finding of Wineland the Good: The History of the Icelandic Discovery of America, London: Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1890 (pages 60–64, under the sections titled "A Brief History of Eric the Red, Leif the Lucky Baptized, and Biarni goes in quest of Greenland.")
• Royal Danish General Staff, Topographical Department, Flateyjarbok. The "Flatey book", Copenhagen, 1893 (pages 221–223)