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Thorfinn
Scandinavian navigator; born in Norway; sailed from Norway to Greenland with two vessels in 1006.
In the same year he organized an expedition to sail for Vinland, which consisted of 160 men and women and three vessels.
They were drive r Martha's Vineyard, where they constructed booths, and during the spring cultivated the land and explored the country.
Thorfinn then sailed for what is probably Mount Hope Bay and there founded a settlement.
Here they first met the Eskimos, who then inhabited the country, and carried on a considerable trade with them.
In the fall of 1009 a son was born to Thorfinn, who was in all probability the first child of European parents born within the present boundary of the United States.
In the fof the United States.
In the following winter the natives became hostile, and after combating them for some time Thorfinn returned to Norway, where he arrived in 1011, and was received with great honors.
He died in Gloemboeland, Ireland, after 1016.