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DANIEL Bruun. 
his mother saw what an excellent woman Gudrid was she allowed 
her to come to her home, and they were good friends. Snorri Karls- 
efnis’son’s daugther was called Halfrid, the mother of Bishop Thorlak 
Runolfsson. (The race was intelligent and flourished for a long time). 
Many other big people in Iceland descend from Karlsefni and 
Gudrid, who are not noted here.” 
With this the tale of the Vineland voyages is finished and from now 
on one hears nothing certain of Vineland. 
It is believed that in Norway there has been a Runic inscription, the 
socalled “Honen-Indskrift” (H-inseription), in which a Vineland journey 
should be mentioned; but it has disappeared, and the unreliable infor- 
mation and conditions under which they were delivered show that one 
ought not to rely on it — as Finnur Jénsson says. 
Lastly a journey shall be mentioned, the aim of which had been 
Vineland. 
The annals of Iceland relate, as before hinted, that in the year 
1121 Bishop Eric Gnupsson searched (or went out to search) Vineland, 
which presupposes that Vineland was known beforhand. According to 
the terms one had evidently neither travelled in the country nor heard 
of it for a long time. Probably the journey was carried into effect so 
as to spread Christianity amongst the Skrallings; but nothing is reported 
of this; and one hears nothing of the results, so it must be gathered 
that the bishop perished on the journey. 
The Icelandic information does not later mention anything reliable 
concerning the attempt of colonization in Vineland. But there is all-the- 
same a possibility of there having been intercourse with the discovered 
countries. 
It is stated in the annals of the “Flatey book” in the year 1347: 
“A ship came from Greenland. It had sailed to Markland and there 
were 18 men on board.” 
The same event is related in the following manner in the oldest 
annals of Skalholt: 
“There also came a ship from Greenland, it was smaller than the 
small Icelandic commercial ships. They came into the outmost Straum- 
fiord (Streamfiord in Iceland). It had no anker. There were 17 men on 
board, and they had sailed to Markland but were later driven here 
by a storm at sea.” 
The memorial of the Vineland journeys are well preserved in Green- 
land and Iceland ; there is no proof of the supposition that Columbus who 
sailed in the Icelandic waters in the year 1476, should have heard any- 
thing of the discovery having taken place. The Norsemen’s discovery of 
Vineland had hardly any influence on the discovery of America in 1492. 
