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Snorri Thorfinnsson

Biography

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Vinland: North America's Viking Colony

 

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Gudrid the Wanderer: Epilogue

 

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Ævintýri í N-Ameríku - The Snorri West Program

 

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Adventure in N-America - The Snorri West Program

 

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Snorri Thorfinnsson probably born between 1004 and 1013, and died c. 1090) was the son of explorers Þorfinnur Karlsefni and Guðríður Þorbjarnardóttir. He is considered to be the first white child to be born in the Americas, apart from Greenland. He became an important figure in the Christianisation of Iceland.