Thorvald Asvaldsson

Thorvald Ásvaldsson (Old Norse: Þórvaldr Ásvaldsson) was the father of the colonizer of Greenland, Erik the Red, and grandfather of Leif Erikson, who visited North America centuries before Christopher Columbus. Thorvald's father was Ásvald Ulfsson, whose father was Ulf Oxen-Thorisson, whose father was Oxen-Thorir, brother of Naddodd, discoverer of Iceland.

Thorvald Ásvaldsson was born in Norway. He was exiled from Norway in c. 960, during the reign of King Haakon the Good (son of Harald Finehair), for the crime manslaughter. He left with his son Erik to northwest Iceland, where he died before 980.

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