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curves almost like a hook, one gets the impression that those who come 
from the south were highly exposed to being caught by the curve of the 
point, whilst those coming from the north were carried smoothly past. 
Perhaps this comment on the shape of the cape may conduce to 
explain why Karlsefni landed on the return voyage instead of on the 
outward journey. Moreover it was not such comments, but on the con- 
trary the name, that first drew my attention to the point. Unfortunately 
I have not been able to find any explanation in literature as to why it 
got the name Orignaux Point. But one certainly dares assume that the 
name was given on account of its connection with moose-deer, and the 
most reasonable explanation is that a great many deer have been ob- 
served here. It is not improbable, then, that Orignaux Point is just 
that ness of which the saga relates: here the deer lay during the night. 
Karlsefni and his men continued their return voyage northwards 
through the great Straumfjord, following the east side — according to 
the theory here advanced. The saga ends the account of this trip with 
the words: “now they came back to Straumfjord,...” It seems as if 
there were great disagreement between the sagas production and my 
interpretation. I decidedly don’t believe this to be the case, because 
the matter stands thus, that the word Straumfjord was in reality used 
with two significations; firstly with reference to the fjord itself, and 
secondly with reference to the locality where they spent their first winter, 
and where a portion of the expedition continued to live through the 
three years during which the expedition lasted. This interpretation fully 
agrees with the saga, which says that as soon as the Norsemen had found 
Straumey and had prepared themselves to remain there “They called 
this place Straumfjord.” 
After having described the return-voyage from Нбр to Straumfjord, 
the saga in a few words gives quite a new account of the voyage to H6p, 
and immediately afterwards Karlsefni’s searching for Thorhal the hunter 
is related. Meanwhile this record with all its brevity is very obscure, 
and one of the portions most conducive to a confused comprehension 
of Karlsefni’s voyages. “Some men say that BJ ARNI and GUDRID remained 
behind there [i. e. at the place Straumfjord] with 100 men, and that they 
did not travel further; whilst Karlsefni and Snorri travelled southwards 
with 40 men, as they were hardly two months at Höp, thereafter return- 
ing in the same summer. 
Karlsefni thereafter sailed out in one ship, so as to search for Thorhal 
the hunter, whilst the others remained behind. They sailed to the north 
past Kjalarnes, and were carried on to the west, with the land on their 
left side. As far as one could see were waste forests everywhere, with 
hardly any open spaces in them. And after"they had sailed for some 
time a river flowed out of the country from east to west; they lay to in 
the river mouth, on the southern bank. 
It happened one morning that Karlsefni and his people saw, opposite 
