Leifsbudir

Leifsbudir was a settlement mentioned in the Greenland Saga as founded by Leif Eriksson in 1000 or 1001 in Vinland.
Later, 160 Greenlanders, including 16 women, established themselves there under the leadership of Norseman Thorfinn Karlsefni, the first European to come into contact with the local Skrælings, or Indigenous [peoples of the Americas|North American Indigenous peoples]. Thorfinn's son, Snorri Thorfinnsson, is believed to have been the first child of European descent to be born in North America outside of Greenland. However, the settlement was a temporary one. The settlers were forced to abandon Leifsbudir due to a lack of trade with natives; they returned to Greenland.
Leifsbudir is believed by some scholars to have been located at L'Anse [aux Meadows] in Newfoundland. Dr. Stuart C. Brown of Memorial University has written "...Dr. lngstad's Procrustean attempt to demonstrate that L'Anse aux Meadows is Leifsbudir is wholly unconvincing..."