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Thorfinn Karlsefni Thórdarson was an
Icelandic explorer.
Around the year 1010, he
followed Leif Eriksson's
route to
Vinland in a short-lived
attempt to...
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Karlsefni and his wife Gudrid, also
recounted in the Saga of the Greenlanders. For this
reason it was
formerly also
called Þorfinns saga
karlsefnis;...
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Thorfinn Karlsefni is a
bronze statue of
Norse explorer Thorfinn Karlsefni,
created by
Icelandic sculptor Einar Jónsson. The
first casting was located...
- Eriksson,
Thorstein Eriksson and his wife
Gudrid Thorbjarnardóttir,
Thorfinn Karlsefni, and Freydís Eiríksdóttir.
Bjarni and his crew
discover three lands by...
- Vinland, but
others from
Greenland and
Iceland did,
including Thorfinn Karlsefni.
According to this saga, Leif was not the
first European to
discover Vinland...
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single expedition led by
Thorfinn Karlsefni. The
voyage of
Thorvald Eriksson is told here as part of the
Karlsefni expedition.
Vinland "Thorvald Eiriksson...
- armpit. Here is the arrow, and this
wound will
cause my death.'
Thorfinn Karlsefni was the
first Norse explorer to
attempt to
truly colonize the
newly discovered...
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known collectively as the
Vinland sagas. She and her
husband Thorfinn Karlsefni led an
expedition to
Vinland where their son
Snorri Thorfinnsson was born...
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considerable number of
Vikings were in
parties that
visited Vinland.
Thorfinn Karlsefni's crew
consisted of 140 or 160
people according to the Saga of Erik the...
- just one
expedition led by
Thorfinn Karlsefni,
although Erik's son Thorvald, his
daughter Freydís and
Karlsefni's wife
Gudrid play key
roles in the retelling...
