60 DANIEL BRUUN. 
Cape Farewell up to 66° n. lat. There is an open canal along the coast, 
which, as Hovgaard says, Karlsefni could use right up north of the 
western settlement. Another reason why the expedition went so far 
towards north and west before steering over Davis straits, possibly 
was that experience had shown that the wind up here was north and 
northwest at this time of year, so that one could get a fair wind. Lastly 
one had, as Storm relates out of Leif’s earlier journeys, probably found 
that there was a shorter stretch from here until one reached land on 
the other side, the present Baffin’s Bay. In short, in these waters both 
wind and ice, etc. must have encouraged a voyage to Vineland by the 
route taken. 
It is related of the voyage from Greenland: 
“They sailed two days to the south”. Finnur Jonsson thinks it pro- 
bably was “5” days. The mistake happened most likely through there 
having been written “ii” (2) instead of “u” (5). 
“When they sighted land they put a boat out to investigate it. They 
found big “Hellur” or flat stones, of which several were 12 ells long; 
there were numbers of foxes. They named the country and called it 
Helluland (now Labrador ?). 
They sailed from there for two days and turned off from the south 
to southwest, and found a country, overgrown with woods, and with 
many animals in it. An island lay to the southeast of the country: 
there they killed a bear and called it thereafter Biarney (bear island) 
but the country Markland. 
From there they sailed further south along the country and came 
to a headland. The country lay to starboard, and had long sandy stret- 
ches of coast. They rowed into land and found on the headland the 
keel of a boat, wherefore they called it Kialarness (1.е. Keelness, keel 
point, or headland). The sands they called Furdustrandir (“the Wonder- 
strand”) as it took such a long time to sail along them. The country 
was permeated by bays, and they sailed into a creek with the ships. 
King Olaf Tryggvason had given Leif two Scotehmen with him (when 
he sailed home to Greenland, and they were evidently with them on 
the journey to Vineland); the one was a man named Haki and the other 
a woman called Нема. They were quicker than deer. Karlsefni 
had them on board, and whilst they sailed past Furdustrandir the Scots 
were put on land with orders to hasten southwards into the country 
and examine its nature. They had to be back again at the end of three 
days. They bore the so called “Kiafal” (or Biafal) costume, with a hat 
(or hood) at the top. The costume was open at the sides, without sleeves 
and held together between the legs with a button and a strap; beyond 
which the Seots were naked. 
They remained away according to the time agreed upon, and when 
they returned the one had a bunch of grapes in his hand and the other 
an ear of newly sown wheat. They went on board and the journey was 
continued. 
