The Icelandic tradition indicates that he was born in the Jæren district of Rogaland, Norway, as the son of Thorvald Asvaldsson, he therefore also appears, patronymically, as Erik Thorvaldsson ( Eiríkr Þorvaldsson ).

Thorvald Asvaldsson () was the father of the colonizer of Greenland, Erik the Red, and grandfather of Leif Ericson, who visited North America centuries before Christopher Columbus.

Thorvald Asvaldsson was born in Norway.

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Leif was the son of Erik the Red and his wife Thjodhild, and the grandson of Thorvald Asvaldsson.

The first person to describe the mathematics behind Brownian motion was Thorvald N. Thiele in a paper on the method of least squares published in 1880.

Thorvald Stoltenberg was part of the unsuccessful mediation team in seeking an end to the war in Bosnia.

The first apparent contact between the Norse and the indigenous people, so-called skrælingjar, was made by Leif's brother Thorvald, and resulted in hostilities and killing.

He was replaced by Norwegian Foreign Minister Thorvald Stoltenberg.

In 1925, the Danish physician Thorvald Madsen was the first to test a whole-cell pertussis vaccine on a wide scale.

The regional cooperation was formally opened on January 11, 1993, initiated by Norway under foreign minister Thorvald Stoltenberg.

His father, Thorvald Stoltenberg, is one of the most prominent politicians in Norway and a former Foreign Minister ; his mother Karin Stoltenberg was a junior minister.

A narrow diagonal street was built, which led from Markveien to Thorvald Meyers gate.

The Copyright Office became a separate department of the Library of Congress in 1897, and Thorvald Solberg was appointed the first Register of Copyrights.

The Danish government was dominated by Social Democrats, including the pre-war prime minister Thorvald Stauning, who had been strongly opposed to the Nazi party.

Thorvald was killed by an arrow that succeeded in passing through the barricade.

Thorvald August Marinus Stauning ( 26 October 1873, Copenhagen – 3 May 1942 ) was the first social democratic Prime Minister of Denmark.

Stauning's second cabinet lasted until Operation Weserübung, the Nazi occupation of Denmark began April 9, 1940, when the cabinet was widened to include all political parties, called the Cabinet of Thorvald Stauning III.

He was a nephew of Nicolai Mejdell ( 1822 – 1899 ) and Thorvald Mejdell ( 1824 – 1908 ), and through the former a first cousin of Glør Thorvald Mejdell, who married Christian's sister Thora Cathrine Sinding.

Thomas Peter Thorvald Kristian Ferdinand Mortensen ( 16 August 1882 – 25 April 1998 ), known as an adult as Christian Mortensen, was a Danish-American supercentenarian.

* Thorvald N. Thiele ( 1838 – 1910 ), Danish astronomer, mathematician, and statistician, who was one of the founders of the insurance company Hafnia

Thorvald Nicolai Thiele ( 24 December 1838 – 26 September 1910 ) was a Danish astronomer, actuary and mathematician, most notable for his work in statistics, interpolation and the three-body problem.

In an Austrian border village, Farber later wrote, he so impressed a Norwegian man, Thorvald Stoltenberg, with knowledge of the man's native tongue that he was allowed to go on one of the covert missions smuggling Hungarians into Austria.

Thorvald Fylgjedalen, a local farmer, found some of the injured soldiers from the glider, but knew no English, and was unable to communicate with them.

Further south, at a point where Thorvald would like to establish a settlement, the Greenlanders encounter some of the local inhabitants ( Skrælings ) and kill them, following which they are attacked by a large force in hide boats, and Thorvald dies from an arrow-wound.

After sailing for a long time, while moored on the south side of a west-flowing river, they are shot at by a one-footed man, and Thorvald dies from an arrow-wound.

Knud Geelmuyden Fleischer Maartmann served from 1865 to 1866 and 1868 to 1869, and Elias Didrichsen served from 1871 to 1888, interrupted by Thorvald Olsen who served from 1877 through 1879.

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After participating as Minister without Portfolio in the Cabinet of Zahle II from 1916 to 1920, he returned to government as prime minister in 1924 for the minority cabinet Cabinet of Thorvald Stauning I which would survive until 1926.

From 1929 he led the successful coalition cabinet Cabinet of Thorvald Stauning II with the social liberal Det Radikale Venstre party that would steer Denmark out of the Great Depression, shaping a major political compromise that greatly improved the Danish economy, and also transformed the Social Democratic Party from a class party to a popular party.

Lord Thorvald Thoresson is said to have constructed the tiny house at its top, whose ruins are still visible, in order to " preserve " his daughter from men.

Zahle never became prime minister again but he became minister of justice under Thorvald Stauning from 1929 to 1935.

Thorvald Jørgensen won an architecture competition to decide who would design the third ( and current ) Christiansborg, which was built from 1907-1928.

Vilhelm Buhl was a member of the Social Democrats, and had held the post of Finance Minister in the cabinets of Thorvald Stauning from 20 July 1937 to 4 May 1942.

Hedtoft was a Social Democrat, and had taken over the leadership of his party from Thorvald Stauning in 1939, but was forced by the Nazis to resign his posts in 1941 because he was too critical of the German occupation of Denmark.

Had Norway not rejected EU membership in 1995, their Commissioner would have been Thorvald Stoltenberg who was proposed as Commissioner for Fisheries ;

* Jens Stoltenberg ( born 1959 ; son of Thorvald S .), the leader of the Norwegian Labour party, prime minister of Norway 2000 – 2001, and 2005 – present