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Icelandic explorers

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norse explorer (c. 970 – c. 1020)

explorer and founder of the first viking settlement in Greenland

Ingólfr Arnarson

Viking settler of Iceland

Thorfinn Karlsefni

Icelandic explorer

Bjarni Herjólfsson

Norse explorer, first known European discoverer of the mainland of the Americas

Gunnbjörn Ulfsson

Hrafna-Flóki Vilgerðarson

first Norseman to deliberately sail to Iceland

Gudrid Thorbjarnardóttir

Icelandic explorer

Thorvald Eiriksson

Icelandic explorer

Eggert Ólafsson

Icelandic writer and explorer (1726-1768)

Snæbjörn Galti

Norwegian explorer

Thorstein Eiriksson

Icelandic explorer

Icelandic explorer, athlete and artist

Herjólfur Bárðarson

Ari Trausti Guðmundsson

Icelandic philosopher, geologist and author

Tyrker (or Tyrkir) is a character mentioned in the Norse Saga of the Greenlanders. He accompanied Leif on his voyage of discovery around the year 1000, and is portrayed as an older male servant. He is referred to as “foster father” by Leif Ericson, which may indicate he was a freed thrall, who once had the responsibility of looking after and rearing the young Leif.

Helgi and Finnbogi

icelandic merchant brothers

Björn Asbrandsson