Eiríks þáttr rauða

{{Short description|Medieval Icelandic tale}}

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{{Confusion|Saga of Erik the Red}}

Eiríks þáttr rauða ('The Tale of Erik the Red') is a short story about Erik the Red, the conversion of his son, Leif Erikson, to Christianity, and the Norse discovery of North America by Bjarni Herjólfsson.{{cite book |last=Reeves |first=Arthur Middleton |date=1890 |title=The finding of Wineland the Good: The history of the Icelandic discovery of America |url=https://archive.org/details/findingofwinelan00reev/page/52/mode/2up |location=London |publisher=Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press |pages=53–78}}

The tale is preserved in the Flateyjarbók, in columns 221–223, where it is interpolated into the Saga of Óláfr Tryggvason.{{cite journal |last1=Hermannsson |first1=Halldór |date=1908 |title=Bibliography of the Icelandic Sagas and Minor Tales |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uTAPAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA29 |journal=Islandica |publisher=Cornell University Library |publication-place=Ithaca, New York |volume=1 |page=29 |isbn=9780527003319 |access-date=29 July 2022}} It is commonly combined and translated with Grœnlendinga þáttr (I) as the Saga of the Greenlanders.