Gudrid Thorbjarnardóttir
Gudrid Thorbjarnardóttir (Old Norse: ; Modern Icelandic: ; born possibly around 980–1019) was an Icelandic explorer, born at Laugarbrekka in Snæfellsnes, Iceland. She appears in the ''Saga of Erik the Red'' and the ''Saga of the Greenlanders'', known collectively as the '' Vinland sagas''. She and her husband Þorfinnur Karlsefni led an expedition to Vinland where their son Snorri Þorfinnsson was born, believed to be the first European birth in the Americas outside of Greenland. In Iceland, Gudrid is known by her byname ''víðförla'' (lit. ''wide-fared'' or ''far-travelled''). Biography As recorded in ''The Saga of Erik the Red'', Gudrid was the daughter of a chieftain by the name of Thorbjorn of Laugarbrekka. As the story goes, a young man by the name of Einar asked for her hand in marriage, but because his father was a slave, Gudrid's father refused to give her hand in marriage. Gudrid and her father promptly left Iceland and voyaged to Greenland to accompany ...
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