Herjólfr Bárðarson is one of the primary settlers in the History of Greenland.
He was the son of Bárð Herjólfsson and married to Þorgerður.
[1] His son Bjarni Herjúlfsson was the first European sighting the American continent in 986, after getting off course.
Herjólfr was one of Eiríkur rauði's liegemen,[2] who left Iceland with 25 Viking ships [3] in 985 to settle Greenland.
According to the Icelandic Landnámabók, his family settled at Herjólfsfjörð on Herjólfsnes peninsula south of Brattahlíð, near modern Narsarmijit (Friedrichsthal) south of Nanortalik.