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  • Herrick or Eric: Jonathan Swift's mother was Abigail Herrick or Erick
  • Earwicker: this English surname is correctly pronounced ErrickerEiríkr is the Old Norse form of the modern name Eric
  • Eric the Red: a Viking warlord who founded a colony in Greenland → Ireland, the Emerald Isle, might be described as a Greenland
  • eric: a fine of Irish origin, paid as compensation for violent crimes