Editing Erik the Red (section)

===Marriage and family===
After his father's death, Erik married Þjódhild Jorundsdottir and moved to Haukadalr (Hawksdale) where he built a farm called [[Eiríksstaðir]]; Þjódhild was the daughter of Jorundur Ulfsson and Þorbjorg Gilsdottir.<ref name="saga" /> Medieval Icelandic tradition relates that Erik and his wife Þjódhild had at least three children: three sons, the [[list of explorers|explorer]] [[Leif Erikson]], [[Þorvaldr Eiríksson|Thorvald]] and [[Þorsteinn Eiríksson|Thorstein]]. Sources differ on Erik's daughter, [[Freydís Eiríksdóttir|Freydís]], with ''The Saga of the Greenlanders'' describing her as a full sister to Leif, but ''The Saga of Erik the Red'' describing her as his half-sister.<ref name=":3">{{Cite news |title=Grænlendinga saga |trans-title=Saga of the Greenlanders |url=https://sagadb.org/graenlendinga_saga.is |access-date=22 November 2023 |website=Icelandic Saga Database |at=Chapter 2 |language=is}}</ref><ref name=":6" /> Unlike his son Leif and his wife Þjóðhildur, who became Christians, Erik remained a follower of [[Norse paganism]]. While Erik's wife took heartily to Christianity, even commissioning Greenland's first church, Erik greatly disliked it and stuck to his Norse gods—which, the sagas relate, led Þjódhild to withhold intercourse from her husband.<ref name=":0">{{cite web|last=Kudeba |first=N. |date=19 April 2014 |title=5: Norse Explorers from Erik the Red to Leif Erikson – Canadian Explorers |work=The History of Canada |url=http://www.thehistoryofcanadapodcast.com/norse-explorers/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140508030929/http://www.thehistoryofcanadapodcast.com/norse-explorers/ |archive-date=8 May 2014 }}</ref><ref name=":6">{{Cite news |last=Sephton |first=J. |date=1880 |title=Eiríks saga rauða |trans-title=Saga of Erik the Red |url=https://sagadb.org/eiriks_saga_rauda.en |access-date=22 November 2023 |website=Icelandic Saga Database |at=Chapter 5 |language=en}}</ref>