Thorvald Asvaldsson (Icelandic: Þorvaldr Ásvaldsson) was the father of the colonizer of Greenland, Erik the Red (Eiríkr Rauði) and grandfather of Leif Ericson, who visited North America centuries before Christopher Columbus. (See Discovery of America.) His father was Ásvald Úlfsson, son of Úlf Øxna-Þórir, brother of Naddod, discoverer of Iceland.
Thorvald Asvaldsson was born in Norway. He was exiled from Norway c960, during the reign of King Harald Fairhair, because he had committed murder. He fled with his son Erik to northwest Iceland, where he died before 980.
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- Thrapp, Dan L. Encyclopedia of Frontier Biography: In Three Volumes. University of Nebraska Press. 1991. p 456.
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