ye shall convey to that headland which seemed to me to offer so pleasant a dwelling-place:  thus it may be fulfilled that the truth sprang to my lips when I exprest the wish to abide there for a time.  Ye shall bury me there, and place a cross at my head, and another at my feet, and call it Crossness forever after.”  At that time Christianity had obtained in Greenland:  Eric the Red died, however, before [the introduction of] Christianity.

Thorvald died; and, when they had carried out his injunctions, they took their departure, and rejoined their companions, and they told each other of the experiences which had befallen them.  They remained there during the winter, and gathered grapes and wood with which to freight the ship.  In the following spring they returned to Greenland, and arrived with their ship in Ericsfirth, where they were able to recount great tidings to Lief....

There was now much talk anew about a Wineland voyage, for this was reckoned both a profitable and an honorable enterprise.  The same summer that Karlsefni arrived from Wineland a ship from Norway arrived in Greenland.  This ship was commanded by two brothers, Helgi and Finnbogi, who passed the winter in Greenland.  They were descended from an Icelandic family of the East-firths.  It is now to be added that Freydis, Eric’s daughter, set out from her home at Gardar, and waited upon the brothers, Helgi and Finnbogi, and invited them to sail with their vessel to Wineland, and to share with her equally all of the good things which they might succeed in obtaining there.  To this they agreed, and she departed thence to visit her brother Lief, and ask him to give her the house which he had caused to be erected in Wineland; but he made her the same answer [as that which he had given Karlsefni], saying that he would lend the house, but not give it.  It was stipulated between Karlsefni and Freydis that each should have on shipboard thirty able-bodied men, besides the women; but Freydis immediately violated this compact by concealing five men more [than this number], and this the brothers did not discover before they arrived in Wineland.  They now put out to sea, having agreed beforehand that they would sail in company, if possible, and, altho they were not far apart from each other, the brothers arrived somewhat in advance, and carried their belongings up to Lief’s house.

[1] From “The Saga of Eric the Red,” as given in the “Old South Leaflets.”  Two different versions of this saga exist, the first written by Hauk Erlendsson between 1305 and 1334; the second by Jon Thordharson, about 1387.  Both are believed to have been based on writings that had come down from the time of the explorations.

Confirmation of the truth of the Norwegian discovery is given in a book by Adam of Bremen, who visited Denmark between 1047 and 1073, and makes reference to Norwegian colonies founded in Iceland and Greenland and in another country which was “called