Saga of the Greenlanders
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Grœnlendinga saga, is one of the sagas of Icelanders. Like the Saga of Erik the Red, it is one of the two main sources on the Norse colonization of North America. Together, these sagas are known as th
Summer on the Greenland coast circa year 1000 by Carl Rasmussen
Das Haus des Glockenspiels in Bremen's Böttcherstraße displays this Leif and Karlsefni panel of 10 from Bernhard Hoetger's 1934 "ocean-crossing" set
Christian Krohg Leiv Eirikson discovering America Google Art Project
Thorfinn Karlsefni
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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 establish a permanent settlement there with his
Saga of the Greenlanders
…to North America, led respectively by Bjarni Herjolfsson, Leif Erikson, Thorvald Eriksson, Thorstein Eriksson and his wife Gudrid Thorbjarnardóttir, Thorfinn Karlsefni, and Freydís Eiríksdóttir. Bjarni and his crew discover three lands by chance during their voyage to Greenland, but they never set foot on the lands…
Statue of Thorfinn as Einar Jónsson imagined him