CONTENTS OF VOL. II. 



CHAPTER IX (Continued) 



WINELAND THE GOOD, THE FORTUNATE ISLES, AND THE DISCOVERY 



OF America i 



Wineland — The African islands — The vine in North America — The 

 wild wheat — Encounters with the Skraslings in Wineland — The 

 Skraslings are originally mythical beings — Borrowed features — The 

 maggot-sea — The saga narrative a mosaic — Features that appear 

 genuine — Surest historical evidence — Are Frode's evidence — Runic 

 stone from Honen — Bishop Eric seeks Wineland — Wineland in me- 

 diaeval literature — Wineland in Faroese lays — Helluland in legend — 

 Voyage to Markland, 1347 — Norse ballgame in America — Difficulties 

 in the way of colonization — Hvitramanna-land — Origin of the name 

 —The name Great-Ireland — Gudleif's voyage — " Gu6-Leif r " and 

 " Leifr hinn Heppni " — Voyage of eight adventurers in Edrisi — Re- 

 semblance between Edrisi's tale and Gudleif's voyage — Irish myth — 

 Northern tales — ^Japanese fairy-tale — Retrospect — Postscript. 



CHAPTER X 



Eskimo and Skr^ling 66 



Distribution — Original home — Earlier distribution — Period of immi- 

 gration into Greenland — Routes of immigration — Meeting of 

 Eskimo and Europeans — The fairy nature of the Skraelings — The 

 oldest authorities on the Skraelings — Silence about Skraelings in Ice- 

 landic literature — Allusions to Skraslings in Icelandic literature — Allu- 

 sions to Eskimo in European literature — Silence of the " King's 

 Mirror" about the Skraelings — Summary of the allusions to Skrae- 

 lings in Greenland — The Skraelings of Wineland — Ultimate fate of 

 the Eskimo. 



CHAPTER XI 



The Decline of the Norse Settlements in Greenland. . . 95 



Decline of the Greenland settlements — Decline in reproduction — 

 Cessation of communication with Europe — Gisle Oddsson's annals 

 on the decline of the Greenlanders — Conversion of the Greenlanders 

 into Eskimo — Norse traces among the Greenland Eskimo — Norse 

 words in the Eskimo language — Complaints of apostasy in notices of 



