# Thorfinn Karlsefni

> Icelandic explorer who tried to plant roots in North America five centuries before Columbus — and learned the hard way that some places aren't ready to be settled.

*Icelandic explorer*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/thorfinn-karlsefni

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Historical Figure ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2798645))
- **Category:** Historical Figures
- **Born:** 980
- **Died:** 1020
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Around 1010, Thorfinn Karlsefni Thórdarson sailed from Iceland following the route Leif Eriksson had charted to Vinland. He brought his wife Gudrid Thorbjarnardóttir and a group of followers with ambitions to do what no Norse expedition had managed: stay. The settlement didn't take. Whatever combination of climate, distance, or resistance they met, it sent them back across the Atlantic, leaving Vinland to the coast and the centuries.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 56.4 / 100
- **Momentum:** 0.0 / 100  (trend: STABLE)
- **Historical depth:** 22.5 / 100
- **Now attention:** 0.0 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 60.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 60.0 / 100

## Topics
#Historical Figures, #Scientist, #Chemistry, #Medieval Era

## Sources
- [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorfinn_Karlsefni)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q137732)
- [Pantheon 2.0](https://pantheon.world/profile/person/Thorfinn%20Karlsefni)
- [ثورفين كارلسفينى](https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AB%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%89)
- [Торфін Карлсефні](https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%84%D1%96%D0%BD_%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BB%D1%81%D0%B5%D1%84%D0%BD%D1%96)
- [Thorfinn Karlsefni](https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorfinn_Karlsefni)
- [Þorfinnur Karlsefni](https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9Eorfinnur_Karlsefni)
- [Thorfinn Karlsefni](https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorfinn_Karlsefni)
- [Þorfinnr karlsefni](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9Eorfinnr_karlsefni)
- [Θόρφιν Καρλσέφνι](https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%98%CF%8C%CF%81%CF%86%CE%B9%CE%BD_%CE%9A%CE%B1%CF%81%CE%BB%CF%83%CE%AD%CF%86%CE%BD%CE%B9)
- [Thorfinn Karlsefni](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorfinn_Karlsefni)
- [تورفین کارلسفنی](https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%81%DB%8C%D9%86_%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%81%D9%86%DB%8C)
- [Thorfinn Karlsefni](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorfinn_Karlsefni)
- [Thorfinn Karlsefni](https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorfinn_Karlsefni)
- [ת'ורפין קרלספני](https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%AA'%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%A4%D7%99%D7%9F_%D7%A7%D7%A8%D7%9C%D7%A1%D7%A4%D7%A0%D7%99)
- [Thorfinn Karlsefni](https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorfinn_Karlsefni)
- [Þorfinnur karlsefni](https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9Eorfinnur_karlsefni)
- [Þorfinnr Karlsefni](https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9Eorfinnr_Karlsefni)
- [ソルフィン・ソルザルソン](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%BD%E3%83%AB%E3%83%95%E3%82%A3%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%BD%E3%83%AB%E3%82%B6%E3%83%AB%E3%82%BD%E3%83%B3)
- [토르핀 카를세프니](https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%86%A0%EB%A5%B4%ED%95%80_%EC%B9%B4%EB%A5%BC%EC%84%B8%ED%94%84%EB%8B%88)
- [Thorfinnus Karlsefni](https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorfinnus_Karlsefni)
- [Thorfinn Karlsefni](https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorfinn_Karlsefni)
- [Торфин Карлсефни](https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%84%D0%B8%D0%BD_%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BB%D1%81%D0%B5%D1%84%D0%BD%D0%B8)
- [Þorfinnur Karlsefni](https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9Eorfinnur_Karlsefni)
- [Torfinn Karlsevne](https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torfinn_Karlsevne)
- [Thorfin Karlsefni](https://ace.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorfin_Karlsefni)
- [ثورفين كارلسفيني](https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AB%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A)

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