heriulfson

Updated: May 15, 2025

In 986 Bjarn Heriulfson, who had come from Norway to Iceland to spend the winter with his father, learnt that the latter had joined Eric the Red in Greenland.

Jules Verne - Celebrated Travels and Travellers: Part I. The Exploration of the World

Discovery and settlement of Canada by France. Much learning has been devoted to the elucidation of the Icelandic Sagas, or vague accounts of voyages which Bjorne Heriulfson and Lief Ericsson, sons of the first Norse settlers of Greenland, are supposed to have made at the end of the tenth century, to the eastern parts of what is now British North America, and, in the opinion of some writers, even as far as the shores of New England.

Sir John George Bourinot - Canada under British Rule 1760-1900