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his sailors : ' Now we will do two kinds of work, one day you 

 shall gather grapes or cut vines, the other you shall fell trees 

 so that I may load my ship.' This they did, and their boat is 

 said to have been filled with grapes, and a ship's load of timber 

 was cut. When spring came they made ready and left, and 

 Leif named the land after its fruits, and called it Vinland. 

 They sailed out to sea and got fair winds till they saw Green- 

 land and its glaciers. Then a man said to Leif : ' Why dost 

 thou steer the ship so close to the wind ? ' Leif answered : ' I 

 am attending to my steering, but I am also looking at some- 

 thing else ; do you see anything remarkable ? ' They answered 

 they did not. Leif said : ' I do not know whether it is a ship 

 or a rock which I see.' Then they saw it, and said it was a 

 rock. His sight was so much better than theirs that he saw 

 men on the rock. He said : ' Now I want to keep closer to 

 the wind, so that we may get to them, and we must give them 

 help if they need it. If they are not peaceful they are in em- 

 power, but we are not in theirs.' They approached the rock, 

 cast anchor, lowered their sail, and set out a little boat which 

 they had with them. Then Tyrker asked these men who their 

 leader was. The leader answered that his name was Thorir, 

 and he was a Norwegian, but what, he said, is thy name? 

 Leif told his name. ' Art thou the son of Eirek, the Red, of 

 Brattahlid ? ' Leif answered : ' I am. Now I offer to you all 

 to come on board my ship with as much cargo as it can hold.' 

 They accepted the offer, and sailed to Brattahlid, in Eiriksfjord, 

 with the cargo, where they unloaded the ship. Leif invited 

 Thorir to stay with him, and also his wife Gudrid and three 

 other men, and for his own sailors and those of Thorir he got 

 quarters. Leif took fifteen men from the rock, and was after- 

 wards called Leif the Lucky. He was now rich and respected ; 

 that winter a disease came among the men of Thorir, and he 

 and the greater part of his men, and also Eirek, the Red, died. 

 There was much talk about Leif's Vinland journey, and his 

 brother Thorvald thought the land had been explored too 

 little. Leif then said to him : ' Thou shalt go with my ship, 

 brother, if thou likest, to Vinland, but it shall first fetch the 

 timber of Thorir from the rock. This was done " (Flateyjar- 

 bok, i. 538). 



Third Voyage. 



" Now Thorvald made ready (in Greenland, where his 

 father Eirek lived), with the help of his brother Leif, for this 

 voyage with thirty men. They prepared their ship and 

 sailed to sea, and nothing is told of their journey till they 

 came to Vinland, to the booths of Leif. . . . They sat quiet 



