48 DANIEL BRUUN. 
requested to go with them, as they had the greatest confidence in his 
sagacity and good fortune. He was for some time disinclined, but as 
his friends urgently bade him do it he would not say no. 
So they repaired the ship on which Thorbiörn had come to Green- 
land, and it was decided that twenty men should take the journey. 
They took only few goods with them but weapons and provisions. 
That morning, on which the departure was to take place, Eric 
rode away from his home after having hidden a casket in the earth, 
wherein there was gold and silver. On the way an accident happened to 
him, he fell off his horse and broke some ribs besides hurting his arm at 
the shoulder. He told his wife Thiodhild to take the casket with the 
money up again, and he intimated, that it all had happened on 
account of his having hidden the money and for that reason he must 
suffer. 
Thereupon they gladly sailed out of Ericsfiord, expecting much 
from their journey. They drifted a long time, not going the way they 
wished to. First they sighted Iceland, then they saw birds from Ireland. 
Thus their ship drifted hither and thither on the sea. They returned 
in the autumn greatly damaged by the rough weather and sleet, and 
fatigued by their toils. The winter had set in when they reached Erics- 
fiord. 
Eric remarked: 
“More joyful were you as you sailed out of the fiord in the summer, 
than we are now, but there are still many good remedies for us, to be 
found.” 
Hereto Thorstein remarked: 
“It now befits chiefs to take care of all the men here (on board) 
who have no place of resort — and find lodgings for them during the 
winter.” 
Eric’s answer was: 
“It is a standing truth, that a case is not clear before it is an- 
swered. Such it is in this case. Now we will follow thy advice.” 
All of them who had no winter quarters, accompanied Eric and 
Thorstein to Brattahlid where they remained that winter. 
Thorstein Ericsson married Gudrid. 
The spectre. 
Now it is told, that Thorstein Ericsson wooed Gudrid, and both 
she and her father accepted the courtship with pleasure and everything 
was arranged. Thorstein and Gudrid’s wedding was held at Battahlid 
in the autumn. There where many present and the feast was a success. 
Thorstein lived on a farm in the western settlement called Lysu- 
fiord (in the present Ameralikfiord?) Half of the farm belonged to a 
man called Thorstein, whose wife was called Sigrid. 
At harvest time Thorstein went to Lysufiord to his namesake, ac- 
