Thord Horsehead was son of Snorri, son of . Thorfinn was presumably raised at his father's estate called Stad (Stað) in Reyniness (). This estate was located in the Skagafjord bay area, which is also where Thorfinn's great-grandfather established roots, at his farm of in . Thorfinn himself also retired in the area in his later years; while "Eiríks saga" says "he went (back) to his farm in Reyniness," "Grœnlendinga saga" states he bought new lands at . A more detailed genealogy (under "Eiríks saga rauða", ch. 7) is interpolated in the "H" or Hauksbók text of Haukr Erlendsson. Haukr had particular interest since he himself claimed descent from Thorfinn. However, Haukr's ancestral trace before Karlsefni's great-grandfather Thord of Hofdi deviates from other sources, and the "Landnámabók" version is deemed more reliably accurate. Though not shown in the family tree (right), Thorfinn also claims descent from the matriarch Aud the Deep-Minded through Thord Gellir. In the early twentieth century, Icelandic sculptor Einar Jónsson was commissioned by Joseph Bunford Samuel to create a statue of Thorfinn Karlsefni through a bequest that his wife, Ellen Phillips Samuel, made to the Fairmount Park Art Association (of Philadelphia, now the Association for Public Art). Her bequest specified that the funds were to be used to create a series of sculptures "emblematic of the history of America." "Thorfinn Karlsefni" (1915–1918) was installed along Philadelphia's Kelly Drive near the Samuel Memorial and unveiled on November 20, 1920. There is another casting of the statue in Reykjavík, Iceland. As reported on October 1, 2018, vandals did severe damage to the statue. They toppled the statue and then dragged it into the near-by Schuylkill River. "It appeared the statue was pulled off its massive stone base, which measures 12-by-12 feet wide. Bits of stone were scattered across drag marks on the ground and the bronze could be seen bubbling underwater in the river." - NBC Philadelphia  The 1967 comedic science fiction novel "The Technicolor Time Machine" by Harry Harrison reveals at its ending that the character named Ottar—an 11th-century Viking hired by a film studio as consultant and actor—is indeed Thorfinn Karlsefni.