80 DANIEL BRUUN. 
intelligent, brave but very unforbearing towards those who did not 
behave well. He was faithful and devout, God-fearing and kind towards 
his friends. Also many people of rank descend from him, and his progeny 
is widely spread over our country. Now we will, for the present, stop 
relating about Thorgils, Orrabeins foster-son — and with that the Saga 
is ended.” 
Ericthe Red died very soon after the Vineland journeys ended, and 
his son Leif inherited the chieftain seat Brattahlid. He died about 1021, 
after which his son THORKEL succeeded him. 
Greenland, in the following period, was possibly the scene of con- 
tentions and manslaughter, caused by the revenge of bloodshed, so 
‘that even whole families were ruined, which inevitably weakened the 
colonies. In Fostbredra Saga (the fosterbrother saga) and in the 
remarkable poem of Skald-helgi (bard Helgi) Greenland’s “légmadr” 
(lawman), we have the means of understanding these conditions, although 
the authenticity of these literary productions must be doubted. But 
on the whole they evidently give true pictures of the conditions im 
Greenland for which they are of great value. 
