Paramount chieftain
The ancient Norse rulers of Greenland were called paramount chieftains.
Among the island nation's chieftains were:
- Erik the Red, or Eirikr Thorvaldsson, the nation's first chieftain and its first settler, began rule in 985.
- Leif Ericson, likely the first European to set foot in North America
- Thorkell Leifsson succeeded his father, Leif, sometime after 1018.
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