Bjarni Herjólfsson (fl. 10th century) was a Norse-Icelandic explorer who is believed to be the first known European discoverer of the mainland of the Americas...

with the initial sighting of North America by an Icelander named Bjarni Herjólfsson, who spotted land after drifting off course on a journey to Greenland...

Kjalarnes. In Grænlendinga saga or the 'Saga of the Greenlanders', Bjarni Herjólfsson accidentally discovered the new land when traveling from Norway to...

Icelandic judoka Bjarni Fritzson (born 1980), Icelandic handball player Bjarni Guðjónsson (born 1979), Icelandic footballer Bjarni Herjólfsson (fl. 10th century)...

selected European settlements. 986: Norsemen settle Greenland and Bjarni Herjólfsson sights coast of North America, but doesn't land (see also Norse colonization...

Thorvald, and Thorstein, and a daughter named Freydis. A man named Bjarni Herjólfsson has the custom of spending alternate winters in Norway and in Iceland...

outside of Greenland. The Greenland Saga describes a voyage made by Bjarni Herjolfsson, and the subsequent voyages of Leif Eriksson, his brother Thorvald...

Thorvald Eiriksson Freydís Eiríksdóttir Gunnbjörn Ulfsson Snæbjörn galti Bjarni Herjólfsson Thorfinn Karlsefni Helgi and Finnbogi Literature Saga of Erik the...

Thorvald Eiriksson Freydís Eiríksdóttir Gunnbjörn Ulfsson Snæbjörn galti Bjarni Herjólfsson Thorfinn Karlsefni Helgi and Finnbogi Literature Saga of Erik the...

had been weakened by shipworms. In the Norse Saga of Erik the Red, Bjarni Herjólfsson, said to be the first European to discover the Americas, had his ship...