405. Eric the Redbeard
The next thing is to purchase supplies, Bruce is the most familiar with this job, he was responsible for the procurement of the manor before, he is very familiar with Reykjavik, whose bedding is complete, whose cleaning products have the best reputation.
The first thing they had to do was to buy a full set of bedding, and Manor One had a total of twelve rooms, so that twenty-four sets of bedding would be needed for a change of clothes.
Bruce drove to a shop called Eric the Redbeard, and he said, "It's very well stuffed, it's all military, it's sturdy. ”
From the outside, the shop looked less like a bedding store and more like a museum, because the walls were covered with murals, and Chen Song looked at a map of Northern Europe and North America, which also depicted a fierce pirate with a masted ship and a suit of armor.
Seeing that he was interested in the mural, Bruce introduced him, "Eric the Redbeard, do you know him, Mr. Chen?"
Chen Song shook his head, and Bruce further introduced: "Well, he is a very famous Viking pirate who was expelled from Iceland for committing a murder, and traveled all the way west to discover Greenland. ”
It was 982 A.D., and Greenland was not as big an ice sheet as it is now, but there was an oasis in the south of Greenland, and Eric settled there with his family. ”
Listening to the introduction, Chen Song realized that he knew this, and he said: "Hey, I know, this Eric is the person who named Greenland, right? He called Greenland the Green Island and deceived many people into going to the island, right?"
"Yes. "This guy is a scheming adventurer, and to our current eyes, he's a murderous bastard, but in the circumstances, he's a hero, and it's not Columbus who first discovered North America." ”
Bruce nodded to the big man and said, "Hi Eric, good afternoon." ”
Dahan stretched out his strong hand and shook hands with the two: "Hi, Mr. Bruce, I haven't seen you for a long time, it's nice to see you again." ”
When Chen Song shook hands with him, he asked curiously, "Your name is also Eric, is it Eric the Redbeard?"
"It's nothing, except that I happen to be called by that name. Eric laughed, "But it was because we had the same name that I became interested in him, and then I learned about him while I studied him." ”
"Eric wasn't just a businessman, he was an adventurer, a true treasure hunter. ”
Eric smiled self-deprecatingly and said, "What kind of treasure hunter am I? I just happened to find two Viking shipwrecks, and I never found the treasure of the Redbeard Colony." ”
Chen Song once used the identity of a treasure hunter to disguise the source of gold, and when he heard that Eric was a real treasure hunter, he immediately became interested: "What treasure are you looking for?"
Bruce said tactfully, "This should be Eric's biggest secret, I don't think he wants to talk about his secret." ”
Eric laughed, "It's nothing, Mr. Bruce, the Redbeard Colony treasure is well known in Nordic treasure hunter circles, and I just wanted to find it, although it's more like a dream." ”
Bruce asked him, "You seem to be self-denying? That's not your character, Eric, I remember every time I saw you, you were arrogant and said you were going to be Indiana Jones II." ”
Eric said in a low voice: "I was naïve then, but now I am mature. ”
"What's wrong with you?" asked Bruce.
Eric shrugged and said, "I'm about to go bankrupt, I found some information, information about the colony, but I took out a loan from the bank and found that the information was wrong, and then I owed the bank a lot of money. ”
"How much?" Chen Song asked.
Eric didn't answer, he smiled again and said, "Do you want to buy something?" It's good to have me in my account now, I need money so much. ”
Chen Song motioned for Bruce to go in and choose bedding, which didn't need him to do anything.
After Bruce left, he said to Eric, "Man, would you like to talk to me a little more about that Redbeard colony?"
Eric said, "That's fine, it looks like you're interested in adventure and treasure hunting?"
Chen Song smiled: "Who is not interested in these things?"
Eric said with an appreciative face, "Who's to say it's not? ”
After a pause, he added: "It is very simple, that Eric attracted more than a thousand people to the southern oasis of Greenland, where they built ships, made iron, built houses, and lived successfully. Didn't I just say that they were the first to discover the North American continent?"
"Yes. Chen Song nodded.
"It was Eric's son, Leif Eriksson, who discovered the North American continent, who heard a captain say that there was a continent west of Greenland, and then he sailed along the coastline first west and then turned south to search," Eric said. ”
Along the way, they discovered Baffin Island and Labrador in Canada, and eventually came to Newfoundland, more than 400 years before Columbus discovered the New World. ”
Chen Song asked, "Then why didn't they stay in North America to emigrate? Was there anything in Greenland that attracted them at that time?"
Eric said, "Yes, home, their home is in Greenland. In addition, Newfoundland had its own masters, the Indians, and the Indians did not welcome them, because they died themselves, and the Viking warriors looked down on the natives, and there were many conflicts between the two sides. ”
Things changed when a guy named Torriphon came into contact with the Indians and established a colony on the island of Newfoundland. ”
"Unfortunately, this guy used cheese at the Indian chieftain, and the chief was lactose intolerant and vomited and diarrhea after eating. Thinking that he had poisoned them, the Indians attacked them, and eventually they had to flee from the American continent. ”
At this point, Eric shook his head repeatedly.
Modern people know the richness of the Americas and what it means to successfully immigrate to the Americas, and it can be said that if Toryfin's colonization plan succeeds, the Vikings may have to replace the British as the masters of North America.
The British race now spread all over the world, thanks to the conquest of the Americas during the Age of Discovery, and the Vikings were confined to Iceland, which was not suitable for ethnic expansion.
At that time, the Vikings raided Baffin Island, Labrador and Newfoundland, otherwise the Indians would not hate them so much.
According to the adventurers, the treasures they plundered were brought to Greenland when they were driven out of North America, where they stayed.
That's what Eric was looking for.