Leiv Eriksson

A Viking chieftain on the other Discworld who, in return for being saved from (i) falling over the edge of the disc and (ii) being flame-grilled by dragons, offers friendship and support to Kin Arad, Marco Farfarer and Silver.

He is small in appearance with red hair with a calulated look in his eye.

It also helps that the Dumbwaiter was reprogrammed to produce first the native Viking brew, and then a potent improvement on the theme.

On Earth known to Kin he discovered and settled the Americas (known to them as Valhalla), with his decendants returning to wage war on Europe.

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On Earth, the 'real' Leif Ericson (Old Norse: Leifr Eiríksson) (c. 970 – c. 1020) was an Icelandic explorer known to be the first European to have landed in North America (presumably in Newfoundland, Canada) - nearly 500 years before Columbus. It is now thought that he and his peoples may well have penetrated as far as Minnesota.