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405. Eric the Redbeard

Next is purchasing supplies. Bruce is the most familiar with this job. He used to be responsible for the procurement matters in the manor. He was very familiar with Reykjavik. He knew who has a complete bedding and who has the best reputation for cleaning supplies.

They first have to buy a full set of bedding. Manor No. 1 has a total of twelve rooms, so that twenty-four sets of bedding are required for changing the clothes.

Bruce drove to a store called Red Beard Eric Logistics Support Center, and he said: "There are a lot of things here, and it sells military products, which are strong and durable."

The store doesn't look like a bedding shop from the outside, but more like a museum. Because the walls are covered with murals, Chen Song looked at a map of Nordic and North America, and there were also stunning pirates with masts and armor.

Seeing that he was interested in murals, Bruce introduced him: "Redbeard Eric, Mr. Chen, do you know him?"

Chen Song shook his head, and Bruce further introduced: "Well, he is a very famous Viking pirate. He was expelled from Iceland for committing a murder and found Greenland all the way west."

"It was 982 AD, and it was during the global warming period. Greenland was not as big as it is now. There was an oasis in the south, and Eric settled there with his family."

Listening to the introduction, Chen Song found that he knew this, and he said, "Hey, I understand, this Eric is the name of Greenland, right? He called Greenland Greenland and deceived many people to go to the island, right?"

"Yes." A big man laughed, "This guy is a very scheming adventurer. From our current perspective, he is a murderous bastard, but in the situation at that time, he was a hero, and he was the first to discover North America, not Columbus."

Bruce nodded to the big man and said, "Hi, Eric, good noon."

The big man stretched out his strong and powerful hand to shake hands with the two: "Hi, Mr. Bruce, I haven't seen you for a long time, I'm glad to see you again."

Chen Song asked curiously when he shook hands with him: "You are also called Eric? Is it from Eric with Red Beard?"

"Nothing isn't, but I happened to call this name." Eric smiled, "but it was because of the same name that I became interested in him, and then I learned about his past while I was studying him."

Bruce introduced: "Eric is not just a businessman, he is also an adventurer, a real treasure hunter."

Eric showed a self-deprecating smile on his face and said, "What kind of treasure hunter am I? I just happened to find two Viking shipwrecks. I haven't found the treasure of the Red Beard Colonial Ksitigarbha."

Chen Song once used his identity as a treasure hunter to conceal the source of gold. 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 smiled and said, "Nothing, Mr. Bruce, the Red Beard Colonial Treasure is well known in the Nordic treasure hunter circle. I just want to find it, although it's more like a dream."

Bruce asked him, "You seem to be denying yourself? This is not your personality, Eric, I remember every time I saw you, you were so proud that you would become Indiana Jones II."

Eric said in a low voice: "I was still naive at that time, and now I am mature."

"What happened to you?" asked Bruce.

Eric shrugged and said, "I'm about to go bankrupt. I found some information about the colony before. But when I borrowed money from the bank to find it, I found that the information was wrong, and then I owe a lot of money from the bank."

"How much?" Chen Song asked.

Eric did not answer, and he smiled again and said, "Are you going to buy something? It's a good thing to get me accounted for now. I need too much money."

Chen Song signaled Bruce to go in and select bedding, and he didn't need to take action.

After Bruce left, he said to Eric: "Man, would you still talk to me more about that Red Beard colony?"

"It's OK, it seems you're interested in adventure and treasure hunting?" Eric said.

Chen Song smiled and said, "Who will not be interested in these things?"

Eric said with admiration: "Who said no? Men all have dreams of adventure in the world."

After pausing, he said, "This matter is very simple. Eric attracted more than a thousand people to the southern oasis of Greenland. They built ships, smelted 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.

Eric said: "The person who discovered the North American continent was Eric's son Lef Ericsson. He heard a captain say that there was a continent west of Greenland, and then drove the boat along the coastline and then turned to search south."

"Along the way, they discovered the Bafen Island and the Labrador Peninsula in Canada, and finally came to Newfoundland, which was more than 400 years earlier than Columbus' discovery of the New World."

Chen Song asked: "Then why didn't they stay in North America to immigrate? Did Greenland attract them at that time?"

Eric said: "There are, homes, their homes are in Greenland. In addition, there is a master on Newfoundland, that is, the Indians. The Indians do not welcome them because they are committed to death. The Viking Pirate Warriors look down on the natives, and there are many conflicts between the two sides."

"Things changed until a guy named Torriffin, who actively contacted the Indians and built a colony on Newfoundland."

"It's a pity that this guy used cheese when he was entertaining the Indian chief. The chief was lactose intolerance and vomited and diarrhea after eating it. The Indians thought he was poisoned, so they attacked them, and in the end they had to escape from the American continent."

Speaking of this, Eric shook his head repeatedly.

Modern people know the wealth of America and what it means to successfully immigrate to America. It can be said that if Torriffin's colonial plan was successful, the Vikings might have replaced the British and become the masters of North America.

Now British people are everywhere, thanks to the conquest of America by the Age of Discovery, while the Vikings can only hide in Iceland, which is not suitable for ethnic expansion, and there are fewer and fewer people.

At that time, the Viking pirates plundered a lot on Baffin Island, Labrador Peninsula and Newfoundland Island, otherwise the Indians would not hate them so much.

According to the investigation by adventurers, the treasures they robbed were taken to Greenland when they were driven out of North America and remained there.
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