Bjarni herjolfsson biography

BJARNI, HERJÓLFSSON, first European to sight the east coast of North America, son of Herjólfr Bárdarson, one of the early settlers of Iceland, and his wife, Thorgerdr; fl. c. 986.

Bjarni was a part of the remarkable migration which in the tenth century established Norse settlements in Iceland and Greenland, and almost inevitably therefore reached the shores of mainland North America.

The Saga of the Greenlanders relates that Herjólfr, Bjarni’s father, sailed to Greenland with Eirikr Thorvaldsson (Eric the Red) in 986 when the latter led a group of settlers to the island and founded an Icelandic settlement there.

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Bjarni Herjulfsson, on his way from Iceland to Greenland, was blown off course far to the southwest; he saw an unknown shore and returned to tell his tale.

At this time Bjarni was a merchant who spent each summer abroad trading in Scandinavia, returning to Iceland in the autumn to spend the Yuletide with his father. When he reached Iceland in the late summer of 986 he was greeted with the news that his father had emigrated to Greenland.

Immediately he set sail thither, but met with stormy and cloudy weather and