page_title: Gudrid Thorbjarnardóttir
hierarchical_section_title: Gudrid Thorbjarnardóttir
caption_attribution_description: English: Statue of Guðríður Þorbjarnardóttir and her son Snorri Þorfinnsson located in Glaumbær, Iceland. Photographed August 1997 by Kathryn Buchanan.
context_page_description: Gudrid Thorbjarnardóttir Icelandic: Guðríður víðförla Þorbjarnardóttir; born in 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).
context_section_description: Gudrid Thorbjarnardóttir (Icelandic: Guðríður víðförla Þorbjarnardóttir; born in 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).
caption: Statue of Gudrid seen in its setting
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