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not likely to get much profit of it.&quot; Thorvald died soon after from his wound. 

 Then the Uniped ran away back toward the north. Karlsefni and his men 

 pursued him, and saw him from time to time and it seemed as if he were 

 trying to escape. The last they saw of him, he ran down into a creek. Then 

 they turned back ; whereupon one of the men recited this ditty : 



&quot; Eager, our men, up hill down dell, 



Hunted a Uniped ; 

 Hearken, Karlsefni, while they tell 

 How swift the quarry fled ! &quot; 



Then they sailed away back toward the north, and believed they had got 

 sight of the land of the Unipeds; nor were they disposed to risk the lives of 

 their men any longer. They concluded that the mountains of Hop, and those 

 which they had now found, formed one chain, and this appeared to be so 

 because they were about an equal distance removed from Straumfiord in either 

 direction. They intended to explore all the mountains, those which were at 

 Hop and those which they discovered. They sailed back and passed the third 

 winter at Straumfiord. 



Then the men began to grow quarrelsome, of which the women were the 

 cause ; and those who were without wives, endeavored to seize upon the wives 

 of those who were married, whence the greatest trouble arose. 



When they sailed away from Wineland, they had a southerly wind, and so 

 came upon Markland, where they found five Skrellings, of whom one was 

 bearded, two were women, and two were children. Karlsefni and his people 

 took the boys, but the others escaped, and these Skrellings sank down into the 

 earth. They bore the lads away with them, and taught them to speak, and 

 they were baptized. They said, that their mother s name was Vaetilldi, and 

 their father s Uvsegi. They said, that kings governed the land of the Skrel 

 lings, one of whom was called Avalldamon, and the other Valldidida. They 

 stated, that there were no houses there, and that the people lived in caves 

 or holes. 



Then follows the information before mentioned about a possible 

 Ireland the Great ; also the statement of their return to Greenland ; 

 where they passed the winter, going 1 on to Iceland the next season. 



The little epic pendant of Biarni s death, the experience of Gudrid 

 with her mother-in-law, and the genealogy of * Herra Hauk the 

 Lawman &quot; end the saga. 



Dr. Nansen has noticed the insertion of The Gaelic Runners 

 episode in the wrong place, but apparently misses the significance 

 of the words about entering a bay which precede and follow it. Evi 

 dently there was but one bay, repeated by the interpolator to keep up 

 the story or in mere carelessness. These were intending settlers 

 guided by Eric s advice and plan of penetrating deep inlets and estab 

 lishing themselves in fertile, ample, grassy borders. Passamaquoddy 

 Bay, just beyond Grand Manan, would be the first to tempt them one 

 would sav. 



