Leiv Eirikson discovering America, 1893 painting by Christian Krohg
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Carl Christian Rafn
Helge Ingstad
Anne Stine Ingstad
Birgitta Wallace
Patricia Sutherland
Robert McGhee
Gwyn Jones
William W. Fitzhugh
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Thorfinn Karlsefni Thórdarson[a] was an Icelandic explorer. Around the year 1010, he followed Leif Eriksson's route to Vinland in a short-lived attempt to establish a permanent settlement there with his wife Gudrid Thorbjarnardóttir and their followers.
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ThorfinnKarlsefni Thórdarson was an Icelandic explorer. Around the year 1010, he followed Leif Eriksson's route to Vinland in a short-lived attempt to...
include: Thorfinn Torf-Einarsson (died c. 963), Earl of Orkney ThorfinnKarlsefni (fl. 1010), Icelandic explorer Thorfinn the Mighty or Thorfinn Sigurdsson...
expedition of ThorfinnKarlsefni and his wife Gudrid, also recounted in the Saga of the Greenlanders. For this reason it was formerly also called Þorfinns saga...
as a single expedition led by ThorfinnKarlsefni. The voyage of Thorvald Eriksson is told here as part of the Karlsefni expedition. Vinland "Thorvald...
considerable number of Vikings were in parties that visited Vinland. ThorfinnKarlsefni's crew consisted of 140 or 160 people according to the Saga of Erik...
between 1004 and 1013, and died c. 1090) was the son of explorers ThorfinnKarlsefni and Gudrid Thorbjarnardóttir. He is considered to be the first child...
saga as just one expedition led by ThorfinnKarlsefni, although Erik's son Thorvald, his daughter Freydís and Karlsefni's wife Gudrid play key roles in the...
he died before leaving Greenland. A few years later, ThorfinnKarlsefni, also known as "Thorfinn the Valiant", supplied three ships with livestock and...
to Vinland, but others from Greenland and Iceland did, including ThorfinnKarlsefni. According to this saga, Leif was not the first European to discover...
Herjólfsson, encountered by Leif Erikson and further explored by ThorfinnKarlsefni Thórdarson around AD 1000 on the North Atlantic coast of North America...
women who settled in Markland for winter protection led by ThorfinnKarlsefni (Þorfinnr Karlsefni Þórðarson), c. 1010. The Saga of Erik the Red indicates...
Norseman ThorfinnKarlsefni, the first European to come into contact with the local Skrælings, or North American Indigenous peoples. Thorfinn's son, Snorri...
become a nun and remain there until her death. A ship commanded by ThorfinnKarlsefni, a man of means, arrives in Greenland from Norway. He stays with Leif...
where it is related that the inhabitants of Markland speak of it to ThorfinnKarlsefni. Now, when they sailed from Vinland, they had a southern wind, and...
Eiríksdóttir Gunnbjörn Ulfsson Snæbjörn galti Bjarni Herjólfsson ThorfinnKarlsefni Helgi and Finnbogi Literature Saga of Erik the Red Saga of the Greenlanders...
Eiríksdóttir Gunnbjörn Ulfsson Snæbjörn galti Bjarni Herjólfsson ThorfinnKarlsefni Helgi and Finnbogi Literature Saga of Erik the Red Saga of the Greenlanders...
tells of a battle that the Icelander ThorfinnKarlsefni fought with the Skrælingar and in which two of Karlsefni's men and four Inuit were killed. In the...
and Baffin Island Leif Erikson to Newfoundland (Vinland) Spouses ThorfinnKarlsefni and Gudrid Thorbjarnardóttir led an expedition to Vinland where they...
believed to refer to the island of Newfoundland. The Viking prince ThorfinnKarlsefni took two Scottish slaves to Vinland. When the longships moored along...
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