Erikson, Thorvald (10th-11th centuries). Viking explorer, son of Erik the Red and brother of Leif and Thorstein Erikson, according to the Saga of the Greenlanders, he traveled to Vinland (East Coast of Canada) a year after his brother Leif (around 1002), on the third expedition to the west. of Greenland after Bjarni Herjulfsson and Leif himself. Thorvald perishes at the hands of the natives of the area, Thorvald was the first European to have contact with Native Americans, whom the sagas call Skraelingar. At that time the encounter was not as destructive as it was 500 years later.

This group of Venezuelan musicians take this historical event as their attempt of cultural fusion; taking the name of this honorable viking explorer, Thorvald, as their banner and inspiration for their sound.