Thorvald & Vínland  

The next traveller to Labrador was Thorvald; he would have taken a slightly more direct route, but we know he travelled past a number of islands and by the mouth of two fjords with a promontory jutting in the middle of them[55] – not exactly a dissimilar location to Point C (on Figure 15). It also seems likely that, based on the Grænlendinga, Throvald didn’t settle at L'Anse aux Meadows, as Leif may have:
“They did this and then sailed away eastward along the coast. Soon they found themselves at the mouth of two fjords, and sailed up to the promontory that jutted out between them; it was heavily wooded. They moored the ship alongside and put out the gangway, and Thorvald went ashore with all his men. ‘It is beautiful here,' he said. 'Here I should like to make my home.'”[56]
If this is the case, then it seems likely that a second Norse site further north in Labrador which may contain remnants (namely Thorvald’s body).[57] It seems that Thorvald may have travelled around 1950 miles.

Thorfinn & Gudrin in Vínland  

The final Norse trip to North America, returned to the L'Anse aux Meadows site. This trip was led by Thorfinn Karlsefni, and his wife,[58] Leif’s sister-in-law, Gudrid.[59] Based on the Saga, it seems Thorfinn made directly for Leif’s former site in Vínland.[60] They stayed a while, and following a fight with the ‘Skrælings’ (indigenous people) they returned to Greenland.[61] This suggests a journey of around 1525 miles. Thorfinn and Gudrid from Greenland went on to Iceland, where Thorfinn died.[62] Together they travelled around 2343 miles.

Gudrid: To Rome and Back Again

Gudrid, herself, travelled much further from Greenland, than just to Vínland and Iceland. Vínland was her first journey, Iceland her second. After Thorfinn’s death, and her son, who was born in Vínland, married, she went on a pilgrimage to Rome, and returned (Figure 16) to become an abbess at the abbey she founded in Iceland.[63]  It is impossible to know which way Gudrid travelled to Rome, but based on Google Maps, ‘walking’ – the journey from Skagaströnd, Iceland to Rome, Italy would be 2545 miles. In her life, Gudird travelled more than 7434 miles.