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TIL of Snorri Thorfinnsson, the first North American child to be born of European parents (Thorfin Karlsefni and Gudrid Thorbjarnardóttir), was born in Vinland around A.D. 1000. He would go on to be an important figure in the Christianisation of Iceland

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