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DANIEL BRUUN. 
everything that is in our power to render. Tell me now what art thou 
troubled about.” 
Eric answered: 
"You are satisfied here, and I am not really afraid that you will 
be ungrateful, but I am afraid that it will be said when you come else- 
where that you have never spent so poor a Yule-tide as the one now 
approaching — when Eric the Red entertained you at Bratahlid in 
Greenland.” ; 
“There is no fear of that, Farmer!” said Karlsefni; “in our ships 
we have both malt, meal and corn; take as much as thou wishest, and 
make as stately a feast as thou thinkest best!” 
Eric accepted the offer, and they made ready for the Yule-feast ; 
and the feast was so stately that people thought they had never seen 
such magnificence before in a poor country. After the Yule-feast Karls- 
efni wooed Gudrid, as he thought, Eric could dispose of her. Eric ac- 
cepted the courtship kindly and said that she deserved an honest man 
and that it would be her fate to marry him, and it ended that he 
married her. They feasted again as the wedding was held at Brattahlid 
during the winter. 
The beginning of the voyages of Vineland. 
At Brattahlid people began talking much of searching “Vineland” 
(“the good” as it is called in one of the manuscripts) as a Journey thi- 
ther would assuredly repay them on account of the riches of the country. 
Consequently in the following spring, Karlsefni and Snorri equipped 
their ships to search the country. The before-named men Bjarni and 
Thorhall, also prepared themselves and their ships. Besides which a 
man named Thorvard who was married to Eriethe Red’s natural daughter 
Freydis, and Erie’s son Thorvald were to go with them, also Thorhall 
surnamed “Veidimadr” (i. e. Huntsman), who had been a long time with 
Eric and served him as capturer during the summer and bailiffe during 
the winter. He was big, strong, and swarthy as a giant but silent and 
malicious in all he said, always inciting Eric to do the worst. He was 
a bad Christian, knowing the uninhabited parts well. This man was 
to be on board the ship with Thorvard and Thorwald, who had the ship 
Thorbiörn had sailed in There were in all 160 men when they sailed 
to the western settlement and from there on to Biarney (Bear Isle, 
now Disko Island ?),“ 
The expedition thus sailed northwards to begin with. There may 
have been several reasons for this. Gudrid’s farm lay in the western 
settlement and there could be occasion to touch there before the cam- 
paign began. But there were other reasons which might have a con- 
current motive. 
Greenland’s most south west coast is in our days, as we have already 
heard, blocked by ice in the early summer months, sometimes from 
