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Snorri Karlsefnisson

The son born to Gudrid and Karlsefni in Vinland.

Karlsefni and Gudrid in Vinland

The Saga of the Greenlanders, from Flateyjarbók (copied 1387), edited by Gustav Storm (1891), chapter 7 · events of about 1000–1010; written down in the 1300s; copied in 1387

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Nu er fra þui at segia at Kallzefni lętr gera skidgard ramligann um bę sinn ok biugguzst þar vm. J þann tima fædde Gudridr suein barnn kona Kallzefnis ok het sa sueinn Snorre.

Next, Karlsefni had a strong palisade built around his farm, and they got ready there. At that time Gudrid, Karlsefni’s wife, gave birth to a baby boy, and he was named Snorri.