A cargo sufficient for the ship was cut, and when the spring came they made their ship ready, and sailed away; and from its products Lief gave the land a name, and called it Wineland.  They sailed out to sea, and had fair winds until they sighted Greenland and the fells below the glaciers.  Then one of the men spoke up and said, “Why do you steer the ship so much into the wind?” Lief answers:  “I have my mind upon my steering, but on other matters as well.  Do ye not see anything out of the common?” They replied that they saw nothing strange.  “I do not know,” says Lief, “whether it is a ship or a skerry that I see.”  Now they saw it, and said that it must be a skerry; but he was so much keener of sight than they that he was able to discern men upon the skerry.  “I think it best to tack,” says Lief, “so that we may draw near to them, that we may be able to render them assistance if they should stand in need of it; and, if they should not be peaceable disposed, we shall still have better command of the situation than they.”

They approached the skerry, and, lowering their sail, cast anchor, and launched a second small boat, which they had brought with them.  Tyrker inquired who was the leader of the party.  He replied that his name was Thori, and that he was a Norseman; “but what is thy name?” Lief gave his name.  “Art thou a son of Eric the Red of Brattahlid?” says he.  Lief responded that he was.  “It is now my wish,” says Lief, “to take you all into my ship, and likewise so much of your possessions as the ship will hold.”  This offer was accepted, and [with their ship] thus laden they held away to Ericsfirth, and sailed until they arrived at Brattahlid.  Having discharged the cargo, Lief invited Thori, with his wife, Gudrid, and three others, to make their home with him, and procured quarters for the other members of the crew, both for his own and Thori’s men.  Lief rescued fifteen persons from the skerry.  He was afterward called Lief the Lucky.  Lief had now a goodly store both of property and honor.  There was serious illness that winter in Thori’s party, and Thori and a great number of his people died.  Eric the Red also died that winter.  There was now much talk about Lief’s Wineland journey; and his brother, Thorvald, held that the country had not been sufficiently explored.  Thereupon Lief said to Thorvald, “If it be thy will, brother, thou mayest go to Wineland with my ship; but I wish the ship first to fetch the wood which Thori had upon the skerry.”  And so it was done.

Now Thorvald, with the advice of his brother, Lief, prepared to make this voyage with thirty men.  They put their ship in order, and sailed out to sea; and there is no account of their voyage before their arrival at Liefs-booths in Wineland.  They laid up their ship there, and remained there quietly during the winter, supplying themselves with food by fishing.  In the spring, however, Thorvald said that they should put their ship in order, and that a few men should