WINELAND THE GOOD 



engines for throwing stones, mangonels) and Greek fire (?) 

 were in use.^ 



Icelandic representation of the northern and western lands 



as connected with one another, by Sigurd Stefansson, circa 



1590 [Torfasus, 1706]. Cf. G. Storm, 1887, pp. 28 f. 



1 Prof. Alexander Bugge has pointed out to me that Schoolcraft [1851, i. 

 p. 85, pi. 15] mentions a tradition among the Algonkin Indians that they had 

 used as a weapon of war in ancient times a great round stone, which was sewed 

 into a piece of raw hide and fastened thereby to the end of a long wooden shaft. 



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