BJARNI HERJULFSSON

Specialty Definition: Bjarni Herjulfsson

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In 986 Bjarni Herjulfsson, a trader from Iceland, was blown far off course by a fierce storm between Iceland and Greenland. He said that he had seen strange hilly, heavily forested land far to the west. Herjulfsson never set foot on its shores.

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