196 H. P. STEENSBY. 
gate the country to the north had cooled, and that the saga was right 
in it being essentially,to search for Thorhal the hunter that Karlsefni 
went northwards to the mouth of Straumfjord in the same latitude as 
Saguenay, and from there to the north-east, following the southern bank 
of the gulf, or the unknown continuation of Furdustrands. 
Meanwhile — according to my supposition — the voyage is not 
precisely told, but is only hinted at in a couple of inserted remarks in the 
text, which perhaps are even misunderstood. I am especially thinking 
of the remarks that they “went northwards past Kjalarnes,” and that 
the mountain range they reached was the same as the one they had seen 
in Höp. Of course it is very tempting to try on the basis of the last 
fragment of the interpolation to find out how far Karlsefni reached on 
this side of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Possibly he did not go far from 
the head quarters in Straumfjord, as he must soon have seen that the 
coast was not inclined so soon to curve towards the south, but continued 
in such an uninviting direction.! If one dared start from the remark 
that “it was equally far from Straumfjord on both sides,” one could 
suppose that he had nearly reached 49° М. lat., and that it was the St. 
Anne Mountains lying in the interior of the country that he considered 
to be a continuation of the mountains to the south of Нбр, which, for 
the rest, they may be said to be in a certain sense. Meanwhile, however, 
it would be too daring to draw decisive conclusions on the basis of these 
brief remarks. 
Before I leave this socalled “interpolation,” there is, however, a 
single point which calls for a pause, and that is the tale of the uniped, in 
consequence of which I will point out that it still has an interesting 
feature. One knows, namely, that Cartier? on the basis of statements 
made by the Indians got the view that the region round Saguenay was 
partly inhabited by a sort of people who moved on one leg. Of course 
it may be by chance that the ancient Islandic saga-relaters also thought 
of placing the uniped and the land of the unipeds in the same region, 
but there is the possibility that also with the Norsemen the idea had been 
founded on local experience, whatever this may have been. 
After this rather lengthy mention of the fairly mysterious interpola- 
tion, we return to the part of the saga which continues the accounts 
of the sojourn in the locality Straumfjord, that is to say on Hare Island. 
“The third winter they were in Straumfjord. They divided them- 
selves into two parties, the women being the cause, as the unmarried 
men would wrong the married ones, from which disturbances arose. 
Karlsefni’s son SNORRI was born there during the first autumn, and he 
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1 I] will once more call to mind that Karlsefni believed that “the country would 
become bigger the further south one went.” It was this which he now was 
to get substantiated. 
2 Cf. В. Suzre, The valley of the Grand River 1600—1650; Transactions of 
the Roy. Soc. of Canada, Vol. IV, 1898, Section II, p. 107 et seq. 
