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  1. Allegedly the first European to find
  2. Greenland. According to a 13th-century saga,
  3. he was the son of a Norwegian chieftain, who
  4. was banished from Iceland about 982 for
  5. murder and then sailed westward and
  6. discovered a land that he called Greenland.
  7.