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Biographies of the chef include tales of Child sleeping outdoors on the second-floor porch and romping through the lawn with her younger siblings and their Airedale dog named Eric the Red.

Revealed in the journal Gondwana Research, the fossil – which consists of a single vertebra – was discovered in 2015 at a dig site called Eric the Red West near Cape Otway, about three hours’ drive south-west of Melbourne.

Further expeditions to the Eric the Red West site have been thwarted twice this year – first by the bushfire crisis and then Covid-19.

Gudrid Thorbjarnardóttir, an Icelandic woman, joined Eric the Red’s travels to Greenland in the 11th century, and later told the pope about it.

“Fourteen hundred and ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue,” I repeated, “but I’m sure you know, because it’s been said, he was centuries behind Eric the Red.”