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Guðríður Þorbjarnardóttir

born: at Laugarbrekka at Hellisvellir in Iceland
died: at Glaumbær in Skagafjörður in Iceland
married: Þorfinnur karlsefni

Guðríður sailed to North America with her husband on a voyage of settlement.

The Icelanders and Greenlanders sailed from Greenland with the expectation of staying permanently in their new home at Vínland. While there, Guðríður gave birth to a son, Snorri, thought to be the first European born in the new world.

Earlier, while living in Iceland, Guðríður's father ran into financial difficulties and decided to sell his farm and travel with his family to Greenland to begin again.

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In Greenland, Guðríður married one of the sons of Eiríkur rauði, but her husband died soon after during an epidemic. Eiríkur took her in, and Þorfinnur karlsefni, a merchant staying with Eiríkur over the winter, asked for Guðríður's hand in marriage.

The offer was accepted.

At that time, there was much discussion of the new lands that had been f