Did eric the red discover greenland?

It is a little-known fact that the man who “discovered” Greenland, Erik the Red, was not actually the first Norseman to set foot on the island. That distinction belongs to a man named Gunnbjörn Ulfsson, who was blown off course while sailing from Norway to Iceland around the year 985. Gunnbjörn sighted the eastern coast of Greenland and even landed on it, but he decided it was too cold and inhospitable and quickly returned to Iceland. Erik the Red was born in Norway around 950, and his family eventually settled in Iceland. In 982, Erik was banished from Iceland for three years after he killed a man in a dispute. With few options, Erik decided to sail west, back to the land that Gunnbjörn had spotted nearly a century earlier. Erik arrived in Greenland in 985 and, unlike Gunnbjörn, he liked what he saw. He established the first Norse settlement on the island, which he named Greenland in the hope that it would make the island more appealing to potential settlers. (It is worth noting that, at the time, “green” meant “covered with grass” rather than the color we now think of when we hear the word.) Over the next few centuries, a small but steady stream of settlers arrived in Greenland, and the Norse colonies there flourished. The settlers hunted whales and walrus for their oil and ivory, and they traded with Europe for other goods. The Norse colonies in Greenland survived for almost 500 years, until they were finally abandoned in the late 1400s. By that time, the climate had begun to cool, and the once-green island was slowly becoming covered in ice. The settlers were also cut off from Europe by the expanding ice pack, and they could no longer get the supplies they needed to survive. So, while Erik the Red may not have been the first Norseman to reach Greenland, he was the first to settle there. And, despite the ultimate fate of his colonies, he did give the island its name.