68 DANIEL BRUUN. 
The death of Thorvald Ericsson. 
It happened one morning that Karlsefni and his men saw a shining 
spot on the other side of a glade im the wood and they began calling 
in that direction. Something moved — it was a ‘‘one-footed” who ran 
quickly to the river bank where the Greenlanders lay. Eric the Red's 
son Thorvald sat at the helm, the one-footed shot an arrow into his 
bowels. Thorwald drew the arrow out, exclaiming: 
“Well is my suet fat and the country fertile that we have reached, 
but little shall we benefit by it.” 
Shortly after Thorvald died of his wound. But the one-footed ran 
away again northwards. Karlsefni and his men followed, seeing him 
from time to time. The last time they saw him he sprang into a creek; 
they then returned again. A man chanted this little poem: 
“People pursued 
(very true it was) 
a ‘fone-footed” 
down to the shore 
but the strange man 
hastening rushed, 
the arrogant one. 
Hearest thou Karlseini”., 
They left going north, as they thought this to be “the land of the 
one-footed.” They would not expose their men any longer. 
Their opinion was that the mountain range they had seen in Höp, 
and the one they found here were one and the same stretehing equal 
distances on each side of Straumfiord. 
The third winter (1005—06) they spent in Straumfjord. They divided 
into several quarreling consignments; the women being the cause, as 
the unmarried men would wrong the married ones, whereat disturb- 
ances arose (Flatey-book relates that Freydis, caused trouble on the 
above mentioned journey, — it possibly refers to this). In the next 
autumn Karlsefni’s son Snorri was born here, and he was three years 
old when they left. When they sailed from Vineland, a southern wind 
was blowing. They came to Markland, where they met 5 Skrællings 
the one of whom was bearded, two women, and two children. They 
captured the boys, but the others escaped, and the Skrællings sank into 
the earth (disappeared perhaps into their earth houses?). They took 
the two boys with them; they were taught the language and they were 
christened. They called their mother Veethilldi and their father Uvegi. 
They said that two kings reigned over the Skrællings, the one was called 
Avalldamon, and the other Valldidida, also that there were no houses. 
People lived in grottos or caves (earth houses?). They said that there 
was a country opposite to theirs, where people lived who were dressed 
in white clothes and carried a pole before them to which a piece of stuff 
