Bjarni Herjólfsson

966–1000

Norse explorer, first known European discoverer of the mainland of the Americas

explorer

Born in Iceland

Contemporaries

People who walked the earth at the same time as Bjarni Herjólfsson:

• Avicenna (980–1037)
• Murasaki Shikibu (970–)
• Ferdowsi (940–1020)
• Al-Biruni (973–1048)
• Ibn al-Haytham (965–1039)
• Leif Erikson (972–1020)
• Otto I the Great (912–973)

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