# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thorfinn-karlsefni
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:09:39.048Z

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name: "Thorfinn Karlsefni"
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description: "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."
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birthDate: "980"
deathDate: "1020"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
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.