NO. 12 THE WINELAND VOYAGES — SWANTON 33 



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 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 Streamfirth, in either direction. 



As already observed, the Flat Island Book version of this is in- 

 serted in an account of a supposed visit of Thorvald to Wineland. 

 According to this narrative, the second summer they spent there they 

 set out on an exploring expedition toward the north in course of 

 which they came upon and named Keelness as already described. 

 The narrative then continues as follows : 



Then they sailed away to the eastward off the land, and into the mouth of the 

 adjoining firth, and to a headland, which projected into the sea there, and 

 which was entirely covered with woods. They found an anchorage for their 

 ship, and put out the gangplank to the land, and Thorvald and all of his com- 

 panions went ashore. "It is a fair region here," said he, "and here I should 

 like to make my home." They then returned to the ship, and discovered on the 

 sands, in beyond the headland, three skin-canoes, with three men under each. 

 They thereupon divided their party, and succeeded in seizing all of the men 

 but one, who escaped with his canoe. They killed the eight men, and then as- 

 cended the headland again, and looked about them, and discovered within the 

 firth certain hillocks, which they concluded must be habitations. They were 

 then so overpowered with sleep that they could not keep awake, and all fell 

 into a [heavy] slumber, from which they were awakened by the sound of a cry 

 uttered above them; and the words of the cry were these: "Awake, Thorvald, 

 thou and all thy company, if thou wouldst save thy life; and board thy ship 

 with all tliy men, and sail with all speed from the land !" A countless number 

 of skin-canoes then advanced toward them from the inner part of the firth, 

 thereupon Thorvald exclaimed: "We must put out the warboards on both sides 

 of the ship, and defend ourselves to the best of our ability, but offer little 

 attack." This they did, and the Skrellings, after they had shot at them for a 

 time, fled precipitately, each as best he could. Thorvald then inquired of his men, 

 whether any of them had been wounded, and they informed him that no one of 

 them had received a wound. "I have been wounded in my arm-pit," says he; 

 "an arrow flew in between the gunwale and the shield, below my arm. Here 

 is the shaft, and it will bring me to my end ! But me ye shall convey to that 

 headland which seemed to me to offer so pleasant a dwelling-place ; thus it may 

 be fulfilled, that the truth sprang to my lips, when I expressed the wish to 

 abide there for a time. Ye shall bury me there, and place a cross at my head, 

 and another at my feet, and call it Crossness for ever after." At that time 

 Christianity had obtained in Greenland ; Eric the Red died, however, before 

 [the introduction of] Christianity. Thorvald died, and when they had carried 

 out his instructions, they took their departure, and rejoined their companions 

 [in Wineland], and they told each other of the experiences which had befallen 

 them. 



Thorvald's companions remained in Wineland during the following 



