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Thorfinn Karlsefni

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the natives and engages in trade with them, until a bull breaks free and frightens away the natives. The natives return after three weeks with hostile intent, a skirmish ensues, and the Greenlanders attempt as best they can to flee into the forest. Karlsefni and his men are saved by Freydis, who scares the natives off by slapping her bare breast with a sword taken from one of the fallen Greenlanders.
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is born in the New World. The group eventually decides to return home, and as they pass Markland, they encounter five Skraelings (three adults and two children). The adult Skraelings disappear into the earth, while the children are taken by Karlsefni to Greenland, where they are taught to speak Norse
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Karlsefni's expedition discovers further south a bountiful area full of wheat, fish, and game. They attempt contact with the natives who travel in hide-covered boats. The natives leave and the Greenlanders winter there, where their livestock flourish. The following spring, the expedition reencounters
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depicts Thorfinn Karlsefni as a successful merchant from Reynines, Skagafjord, in the north of Iceland. Karlsefni embarks on a trading expedition with 40 men, and arrive at Brattahlid, Greenland where they are hosted by Eirik the Red. Karlsefni marries Gudrid that winter. Karlsefni departs with three
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The relatively few women among so many men caused internal dissension within the settlement, and inability to cooperate caused abandonment of the settlement in the summer of 1006. Thorfinn reached Greenland safely, but many of the settlers drowned when their ship was wrecked in the Irish Sea.
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ships and 140 men in search of Vinland. Karlsefni's expedition winter on a piece of land, where two scouting slaves found grapes and wild grain. Eating a beached whale causes illness, as well as a rift. Thorhall's group declared the whale to be a boon from
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groups. In time, these rallies led to counter protests and vandalism of the statue. In the early morning hours of October 2, 2018, police were called to the statue's location and found it had been toppled from its stone base and dragged into the nearby
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Margaret Elphinstone's "The Sea Road" (2000) is a novel told in the first person. As an old woman, Gudrid recounts her childhood in Iceland, her family's harrowing voyage to Greenland, her marriages, and the trip to Vinland led by Thorfinn Karlsefni.
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Thorfinn Karlsefni was born circa 980–985 in Iceland. His father was Thord Horsehead (Þórðr hesthöfði Snorrason), and his mother was named Thorunn (Þórunn). Thord Horsehead was son of Snorri, son of
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at the insistence of his wife Gudrid. Leif agreed to lend the houses he built in Vinland, but was unwilling to make a free gift of it. Among the other settlers to Vinland was
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Ragnar Hairy-Breeks — Björn Ironside — Aslak — Thorvald Backbone (hryggr) — Björn Butterbox, etc. is the patrilineal lineage given in the
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reveals at its ending that the character named Ottar—an 11th-century Viking hired by a film studio as consultant and actor—is indeed Thorfinn Karlsefni.
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postponed Thorvald's death so he can be made to accompany Karlsefni to Vinland, ultimately to suffer a more fantastical death from a shot fired by a
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crossreferences "Þórvaldr hryggr Ásleiksson" given by Haukr as Thord of Hofdi's grandfather to "Hróaldr hryggr" given by the Landnámabók.
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records), even before Thorfinn. Although Thorvald had met his death by Native American arrows in Vinland before Karlsefni embarked,
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Thorstein had succumbed to disease when the couple was heading for a journey trying to recover the body of Thorvald in Vinland.
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Hroald Spine (Hróaldr hryggr) is called Thorvald Backbone (Þórvaldr hryggr Ásleiksson) in the genealogy of Hauksbók version
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Eventually, they settled in what is now Newfoundland, gave birth to Snorri Thorfinnson and stayed for about three years.
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Elizabeth H. Boyer published "Freydis and Gudrid" in 1978, a fictionalized account of the first Vinland settlement.
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has "var fjórir tigir manna annars hundraðs" with the reading of ".xl. manna ok .c. " (A, Hauksbok) footnoted
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The expedition heads back north, and Karlsefni searches for Thorhall in vain. Karlsefni's men encounter the
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writes that he took three ships with 140 men aboard, and describes the voyage in greater detail than the
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records that Karlsefni left Greenland with 60 men and five women, following the route taken by Leif and
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The pre-Columbian discovery of America, by the Northmen: With Translations from the Icelandic Sagas
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Eirik the Red's Saga: A Translation read before the Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool
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The Book of the Settlement of Iceland: translated from the original Icelandic of Ari the Learned
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By the 21st century, the statue in Philadelphia had become a common rallying location for local
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Though not shown in the family tree (right), Thorfinn also claims descent from the matriarch
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bay area, which is also where Thorfinn's great-grandfather established roots, at his farm of
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indicates that the great-grandfather Thord of Hofdi had emigrated (from Norway?) to Iceland.
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Eiríks saga rauða og Flatøbogens Grænlendingaþáttr: samt uddrag fra Ólafssaga Tryggvasonar
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Thorfinn was presumably raised at his father's estate called Stad (Stað) in Reyniness (
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shifts over to Karlsefni the credit for naming numerous geographic features, from
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in a short-lived attempt to establish a permanent settlement there with his wife
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The Icelander Thorfinn Karlsefni who Visited the Western Hemisphere in 1007
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through a bequest that his wife, Ellen Phillips Samuel, made to the
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she is indicated as bearing the same name as her mother Fridgerd.
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are indicated by the sigla: A=Hauksbok, B=AM 557=Skálholtsbók in
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up to Karlsefni's father. (For further descendants, see under
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to Kjalarnes "Keel Ness", though "this flatly contradicts the
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was commissioned by Joseph Bunford Samuel to create a
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of Thorfinn Karlsefni is the protagonist of the 2005
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means "makings of a man" according to the preface of
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Þorvalldr for til Vijn lanz" 1401: 1381: 603:, who may have accompanied Karlsefni's voyage ( 2050:Samuel, Joseph Bunford; Einar Jónsson (1922), 1392:[ˈθorˌfinːz̠ˈkɑrlˌsevneˈθoːrðɑz̠ˌson] 676:ever led his own voyage to reach Vinland (as 531:Thorfinn's expeditions are documented in the 462: 8: 488:explorer. 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Index

Thorfinnr "Karlsefni" Thordarson

Statue of Thorfinn
Einar Jónsson
Icelandic Commonwealth
Vinland
Gudrid Thorbjarnardóttir
Snorri Thorfinnsson
a series
Norse colonization
of North America


Christian Krohg
Vinland
Markland
Helluland
L'Anse aux Meadows
Eastern Settlement
Western Settlement
Middle Settlement
Gunnbjörn's skerries
Great Ireland
Tanfield Valley
Straumfjörð
Maine penny
Skálholt Map
Kensington Runestone
Vinland Map
Erik the Red
Leif Erikson
Thorvald Eiriksson

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