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Thorfinn Karlsefni (Thorfinnr Thordarson), (Old Norse: Þorfinnr Karlsefni, Icelandic
Icelandic language

Icelandic is a North Germanic languages, the language of Iceland. Its closest relative is Faroese language and Norwegian dialects such as Telemark dialect and Sognam?l....
: Þorfinnur Karlsefni) was an Iceland
Iceland

Iceland, officially the Republic of Iceland , is an island country located in the North Atlantic Ocean between mainland Europe and Greenland....
ic explorer who circa 1010 AD led an attempt to settle Vinland
Vinland

Vinland was the name given to an area of North America by the Norsemen Leif Eriksson, about the year A.D. 1001.In 1960 archaeology evidence of the only known Norse colonization of the Americas in North America was found at L'Anse aux Meadows on the northern tip of the island of Newfoundland , in what is now the Canada province of Newfoundl...
 with three ships and 160 settlers. Among the settlers was Freydís Eiríksdóttir
Freydís Eiríksdóttir

Freyd?s Eir?ksd?ttir was a daughter of Eric the Red, associated with the Norse exploration of North America. The only medieval sources which mention Freyd?s are the two Vinland sagas, believed to be composed in the 13th century but purporting to describe events around 1000....
, half-sister (but according to Grœnlendinga saga
Grœnlendinga saga

Gr?nlendinga saga or the Saga of the Greenlanders is an Icelandic Norse saga. Along with Eir?ks saga rau?a it is one of the two main literary sources of information for the Norse colonization of the Americas....
 she was a full sister) of Leif Eriksson. Karlsefni's wife gave birth to a boy in Vinland, known as Snorri Guðriðsson (as Guðrið outlived Thorfinn), the first child of European descent known to have been born in the New World
New World

The New World is one of the names used for the non-Eurasian/non-African parts of the Earth, specifically the Americas and Australasia. When the term originated in the late 15th century, the Americas were new to the Europeans, who previously thought of the world as consisting only of Europe, Asia, and Africa ....
 and to whom many Icelanders can trace their roots.






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Thorfinn Karlsefni (Thorfinnr Thordarson), (Old Norse: Þorfinnr Karlsefni, Icelandic
Icelandic language

Icelandic is a North Germanic languages, the language of Iceland. Its closest relative is Faroese language and Norwegian dialects such as Telemark dialect and Sognam?l....
: Þorfinnur Karlsefni) was an Iceland
Iceland

Iceland, officially the Republic of Iceland , is an island country located in the North Atlantic Ocean between mainland Europe and Greenland....
ic explorer who circa 1010 AD led an attempt to settle Vinland
Vinland

Vinland was the name given to an area of North America by the Norsemen Leif Eriksson, about the year A.D. 1001.In 1960 archaeology evidence of the only known Norse colonization of the Americas in North America was found at L'Anse aux Meadows on the northern tip of the island of Newfoundland , in what is now the Canada province of Newfoundl...
 with three ships and 160 settlers. Among the settlers was Freydís Eiríksdóttir
Freydís Eiríksdóttir

Freyd?s Eir?ksd?ttir was a daughter of Eric the Red, associated with the Norse exploration of North America. The only medieval sources which mention Freyd?s are the two Vinland sagas, believed to be composed in the 13th century but purporting to describe events around 1000....
, half-sister (but according to Grœnlendinga saga
Grœnlendinga saga

Gr?nlendinga saga or the Saga of the Greenlanders is an Icelandic Norse saga. Along with Eir?ks saga rau?a it is one of the two main literary sources of information for the Norse colonization of the Americas....
 she was a full sister) of Leif Eriksson. Karlsefni's wife gave birth to a boy in Vinland, known as Snorri Guðriðsson (as Guðrið outlived Thorfinn), the first child of European descent known to have been born in the New World
New World

The New World is one of the names used for the non-Eurasian/non-African parts of the Earth, specifically the Americas and Australasia. When the term originated in the late 15th century, the Americas were new to the Europeans, who previously thought of the world as consisting only of Europe, Asia, and Africa ....
 and to whom many Icelanders can trace their roots. The exact location of Karlsefni's colony is unknown but is believed to potentially be the excavated Norse camp at L'Anse aux Meadows
L'Anse aux Meadows

L'Anse aux Meadows is an archaeological site on the northernmost tip of the island of Newfoundland in the Canada Provinces of Canada of Newfoundland and Labrador....
, Newfoundland.

In the early twentieth century, Einar Jónsson
Einar Jónsson

Einar J?nsson was an Icelandic sculpture, born in Galtafell, a farm in southern Iceland....
, an Icelandic sculptor, created a statue of Thorfinn Karlsefni which was placed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Philadelphia is the largest city in Pennsylvania and the List of United States cities by population city in the United States. It is the fifth-largest metropolitan area and fourth-largest urban area by population in the United States, the nation's fourth-largest consumer media market as ranked by the Nielsen Media Research, and the 49th-most...
.

See also

  • Erik the Red
    Erik the Red

    Erik the Red founded the first Nordic countries colonization in Greenland. Born in the J?ren district of Rogaland, Norway, as the son of ?orvaldr ?svaldsson , he therefore also appears, patronymically, as Erik Thorvaldsson ....
  • Flateyjarbók
    Flateyjarbók

    The Flatey Book, is an important medieval Icelandic manuscripts. It is also known as GkS 1005 fol. and Codex Flat?iensis....
  • Hauksbók
    Hauksbók

    The Hauksb?k is one of the few medieval Norse manuscripts of which we know the author. His name was Haukr Erlendsson , and as long back as it is possible to trace the manuscript it has been called the Hauksb?k after its author....
  • Vikings
  • Snorri
  • Bjarni Herjólfsson
    Bjarni Herjólfsson

    Bjarni Herj?lfsson was an Icelandic explorer who is the first known European discoverer of the mainland of the Americas, which he sighted in 986....
  • Spirit Pond runestones
    Spirit Pond runestones

    The Spirit Pond runestones are three stones with runic inscriptions, allegedly found at Spirit Pond in Phippsburg, Maine, Maine in 1971 by a Walter J....
  • Saga of Eric the Red
    Saga of Eric the Red

    Eir?ks saga rau?a or the Saga of Erik the Red is a Norse saga on the Norse colonization of the Americas.In the saga, the events that led to Erik the Red's banishment to Greenland are chronicled, as well as Leif Ericson's discovery of Vinland, after his longship was blown off course....
  • Grœnlendinga saga
    Grœnlendinga saga

    Gr?nlendinga saga or the Saga of the Greenlanders is an Icelandic Norse saga. Along with Eir?ks saga rau?a it is one of the two main literary sources of information for the Norse colonization of the Americas....
  • Helgi and Finnbogi
    Helgi and Finnbogi

    Helgi and Finnbogi were two merchant brothers from Iceland, born in the late tenth century A.D....
  • Leif Eiriksson

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