A second casting of the statue is in Reykjavík, Iceland, and the original plaster model is located in the Einar Jónsson Museum.

The statue was installed along Philadelphia's Kelly Drive, near Turtle Rock Light, and unveiled on November 20, 1920.

[5][6] In the early morning hours of October 2, 2018, police were called to the statue's location and found it had been toppled from its stone base, which broke the head from the body, after which it was dragged into the nearby Schuylkill River.

On back of Karlsefni's shield: Icelandic verse: From the island of the North, of ice and fire, Of blossoming valleys and blue mountains, Of the midnight sun and the dreamy mists, The home of the goddess of northern lights.

Base, front plaque: Following Leif Ericson's Discovery of North America in 1003, Thorfinn Karlsefni with 165 men and 35 women established a settlement which lasted for 3 years and his son Snorri was born in North America Leif Ericson Society of Pennsylvania Scandinavian Craft Club of Philadelphia October 9, 1974[10] In the late 1930s, the city of Reykjavík paid for another casting of the statue to be made for the 1939 New York World's Fair.