thordsson

Updated: May 29, 2025

He looked at you when he spoke as if he wished to make you laugh, but hardly hoped it. His friends called him Karlsefne, which means "a proper man," and his real name was Thorfinn Thordsson. "Thord of Head was my father," he told Gudrid, "and was called Horsehead, not without reason, for I will tell you that no man born could be more like a horse to look at than my father was.

Maurice Henry Hewlett - Gudrid the Fair: A Tale of the Discovery of America