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English: Thorfinn Karlsefni   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Einar Jónsson  (1874–1954)  wikidata:Q975818
 
Einar Jónsson
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Einar Jonsson
Description Icelandic sculptor
Date of birth/death 11 May 1874 Edit this at Wikidata 18 October 1954 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Southern Region Edit this at Wikidata Reykjavík Edit this at Wikidata
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English: Thorfinn Karlsefni
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English: Thorfinn Karlsefni, an Icelandic explorer who circa 1010 AD led an attempt to settle Vínland with three ships and 160 settlers. Thorfinn's wife gave birth to a boy in Vínland, the first child of European descent known to have been born in the New World. In 1918, Einar Jónsson, an Icelandic sculptor, created a statue of Thorfinn Karlsefni which was placed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in Fairmount Park, along Kelly Drive, near the Boathouses. There is another casting of the statue in Reykjavik, Iceland.
Date 1915-1918. Dedicated 1920.
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Object location39° 58′ 12.68″ N, 75° 11′ 24.14″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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