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See Guðríður Þorbjarnardóttir Statue, Snæfellsnes, Iceland
Next to the Bárðarlaug lake in Snæfellsnes is a statue of Guðríður Þorbjarnardóttir and Snorri her son. Guðríður Þorbjarnardóttir (980-1050), who was born in 980 at Laugarbrekka at Hellnar. In her lifetime she went on 8 sea-voyages and travelled twice over the whole of Europe! She is believed to have been the most widely travelled woman of the Middle Ages. The statue refers to Guðríður being the first Caucasian woman to bear a child, Snorri, in North-America.
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