WINELAND THE GOOD 



that he did not know anything particularly remarkable about Wineland; and 

 without doubt this is due to his not having known Adam of Bremen. It has, 

 in fact, been shown that Snorre has not a single statement from Adam." 



Later, Soderberg thinks, Adam of Bremen's fourth book be- 

 came known in Iceland, and on the foundation of that the tale 

 of Leif's discovery of the country with the wine and corn arose, 

 and the later sagas developed, especially that of Thorfinn Karls- 

 evne's voyage, which he thinks in the main " rests on a truthful 

 foundation," though he points out that a particular feature like 

 that of the two Scottish runners must be " pure invention, or 

 rather . . . borrowed from another saga." If Professor Soder- 

 berg had remarked how most of the incidents in this saga are 

 spurious, he would have found even stronger support for his 

 views in this fact. 



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