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How did Thorfinn Karlsefni's attempt to colonize N America begin?

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He appeared in Greenland in 1002 and married Gudrid, widow of one of the sons of Eric the Red . He set out c.1010 with an expedition consisting of three ships and 160 men to settle in Vinland , which Leif Ericsson had discovered a few years before.

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