Statue of Guðríður Þorbjarnardóttir with her son Snori aboard a Viking ship. The farm dates back to the Iceland settlment in the 900s. Guðríður Þorbjarnardóttir (980-1050) was born here. In her lifetime Guðríður 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. She went to America long before Cristopher Columbus "discovered" it and she is most likely the first European woman to bear a child, a son by the name of Snorri, in North America. Later she went to Rome. half-troll half-man and Protector of the Snæfellsnes peninsula, Bárður Snæfellsás, settled and built his farm.