One of the most famous historical figures from Iceland's Viking Age is Egill Skallagrímsson, a legendary 10th-century warrior, farmer, and skaldic poet whose tumultuous life is immortalized in the medieval Egil's Saga. Other renowned Icelandic explorers include Leif Erikson (who famously sailed to North America centuries before Christopher Columbus) and his father, Erik the Red, who established the first Norse settlement in Greenland.