Thorfinn Karlsefni sails for Vinland

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An Icelandic merchant led sixty men and five women in three ships to establish a permanent colony in the lands Leif had found. They stayed three winters, traded with indigenous Skraelings, and birthed Snorri, the first European child known to be born in the Americas. Violent clashes with the native population eventually forced their withdrawal, ending the Norse attempt at North American settlement.