Paramount chieftain

Paramount chieftain

The ancient rulers of Greenland were called paramount chieftains.

Among the island nation's chieftains were:
*Erik the Red, or Eirikr Thorvaldsson, the nation's first chieftain and its first settler, began rule in 985.
*Leif Ericson, likely the first European to set foot in North America
*Thorkell Leifsson succeeded his father, Leif, sometime after 1018.


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