Eirík the Red told Thorkell Gellisson who is Ari's unlce.
The Book of Settlements contains more about the father of Leifur Eiríksson- Eiríkur the Red who fled from Norway. Eiríkur established a farm at Eiríksstadir in the west of Iceland and also lived for a short time on Sudurey and Öxney, two of the islands off the west coast. Eiríkur sailed to Greenland and spent the three years exploring the country. After a yeare in Iceland, he then moved permanently to Greenland in either 985 or 986. The same summer, 25 ships set out for Greenland, of which only 14 made the crossing. This was the beginning of the Icelandic settlement of the country, a settlement which flourished for some centuries. Viking ships from the Norse Saga
According to the account in the Saga of Eiríkur the Red, his ship was blown to the Hebrides and he spent most of a summer there, during which time he begot a child with a woman named Thórgunna. The king of Norway at the time was Ólafur Tryggvason (who ruled 995-1000), and he made great efforts to convert Norway and the countries which had been settled from it to Christianity. Leifur met the king, was converted, and spent the winter with him. In the spring the king sent him to Greenland to spread Christianity, and sent two men to Iceland for the same purpose, who succeeded in getting the Icelanders to adopt Christianity at the Althing in the summer. Leifur was driven off course in this voyage, and found lands whose existence he had not previously known of. In one place there were fields of self-sown wheat and grapevines. Leifur named the country Wineland. On the way back to Greenland he found men on a wrecked ship and rescued them, after which he made his way to his father's home in Brattahlíd. This took place in the yeare 1000 according to Snorri Sturluson's Heimskringla. The saga says that Eiríkur was reluctant to have anything to do with it, but his wife Thjódhildur converted immediately and had a church built at some distance from the farm buildings. A cathedral and bishopric were built later in Gardar in the next fjord. Leifur', son of Eiríkur explored a vast unknown. Soon after Leifur's return to Greenland, an expedition was mounted to explore the lands he had found. The explorers came first to a flat and stony land which they named Flat- Stone Land. Then they sailed further south and found another piece of land which was level and wooded, and they named this Forest Land. Then they sailed a long way south and reached a country where there were grapevines and self-sown wheat. Flat-Stone Land was probably Baffin Island, while Forest Land was possibly part of Labrador.
The Beothuks were the native inhabitants of the island of Newfoundland at the time of European contact in the 15th and 16th centuries. Beothuk means "people" in the Beothuk language. The origins of the Beothuks are uncertain, but it appears that they were an Algonquian group who displaced a Wessex Dorset culture on Newfoundland about 1000 CE. It is possible that the natives described by the Norse as Skrælingjar at this time were either Beothuk or Dorset inhabitants of Labrador and Newfoundland. The Europeans called the Beothuk "Red Indians", because they painted themselves with red ochre. First Nations is a term of ethnicity used in Canada. Kalaallit is the Greenlandic term for the population living in Greenland or may be a corruption of the Norse Skræling, as singular Kalaalleq from Beothuk is no closer to Québec.
From the Book of the Icelanders by Ari the Learned (Are Frode) (1067-1148), Wineland and whom the Greenlanders call Skrælingjar had much involvement with naming the newfound place. Both in the east and the west, they found human habitations and fragments of skin boats and stone implements, from which it was evident that the same kind of people had been there as those whom travelled there- they new Wineland. Eiríkur the Red began settlement in the country 14 or 15 years before Christianity came to Iceland. His father Leifur was probably born at Eiríksstadir about 970-980. As a child he moved with his parents to Greenland and grew up on the farm at Brattahlíd. Following the custom common among the sons of prominent Icelandic families of the time, he made a voyage to Norway as a young man.
Ordericus Vitalis who says that the reason why King Magnus made the great expedition in 1098, was this, that having made a treaty with the Irish king Muircertach. He found that Muircertach played him false, wherefore he both sent him his daughter back, and afterwards in person went to the West with a powerful fleet. Although this certainly was not the sole motive why Magnus went there; the treaty here spoken of must accordingly have taken place before 1098, that is to say, during the first expedition in 1093-94. Earls of Oxford and because earls of Essex and of the other nearby shires already existed but some major earldoms in Scotland originated from the office of mormaer; the ruler of the Norwegian dependancy of Orkney held the title of jarl, and after Iceland had acknowledged Norwegian overlordship in 1261. Earls (jarlar) were commanders of the fleet (leišungr) and deputy in Svealand when the king resided in Götaland. After the first crusade 1155 Uppland was rewarded with the archdiocese. The territory within these boundaries seems to have nominally formed part of the earldom of Orkney, but from the peculiar situation of Ross, it appears to have retained its independence, and to have been an earldom of itself, to which were attached some of the Western Isles. The Ross and Cromarty (Ros agus Cromba in Gaelic) district was smaller than the county. It did not include Lewis, which became part of the Western Isles Island Area.