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There are references to the region and events which happened there 

 in other ancient narratives which have never been even partly 

 ascribed to Ari. Thus, to much the same effect, proceeds " The 

 Longer Saga of Olaf Tryggvason," which, by the way, is not the one 

 in the Flateybook: 



King Olaf then sent Leif to Greenland to proclaim Christianity there. The 

 King sent a priest and other holy men with him to baptize the people and to 

 instruct them in the true faith. Leif sailed to Greenland that summer and 

 rescued at sea the men of a ship's crew who were in great peril and lay upon 

 the shattered wreckage of a ship ; and on the same voyage he found Wineland 

 the Good and at the end of the summer arrived in Greenland. 



This passage ends like that of the Konungabok. 



Also the very old Eyrbyggja Saga, two vellum pages of which 

 date from 1300 and one entire copy from about 1350, relates that: 



Snorri and Thorleif Kimbi went to Greenland Thorleif Kimbi lived 



in Greenland to old age. But Snorri went to Wineland the Good with Karls- 

 efni ; and when they were fighting with the Skrellings there in Wineland, 

 Thorbrand Snorrason, a most valiant man, was slain. 1 



This Snorri, the father of Thorbrand, is of course not to be con- 

 fused with Snorri the little Winelander, son of Thorfinn Karlsefni 

 and Gudrid, Thorbiorn's daughter. 



Dr. Nansen calls attention to a narrative in the Longer Saga of 

 King Olaf the Saint in which the latter is made to speak of Leif 

 Ericsson without calling him Lucky or mentioning his discovery. 



Besides narratives, there are divers geographical notices, following 

 an old formula with modifications. Reeves and Rafn have quoted 

 them in their works above mentioned. All agree as to the relative 

 positions of Helluland, Markland, and Wineland along the American 

 coast. Qne already quoted from the Antiquitates Americans (A. M. 

 Codex 770), omits the name Helluland, but makes the meaning 

 sufficiently clear by the substitution " deserts, uninhabited places and 

 icebergs," indicated as " south from Greenland which is inhabited." 



Always this series of regions is located " south from Greenland." 

 Usually they are identified as belonging to Europe. In two or three 

 instances an extension of the formula occurs, suggesting the con- 

 nection of Wineland to Africa, with inevitable implication of heat 

 and luxuriance. In " The Finding of Wineland the Good " Mr. 

 Reeves takes some pains to array these instances. Probably they rep- 

 resent the usual teaching of the northern schools during several 

 centuries. 



His most significant quotation is from the Arne Magnean MS. 

 194 (8 vo.), a miscellany partly in Latin, partly in Icelandic: 



*A. M. Reeves: The Finding of Wineland the Good, p. 18. 



