NO. 12 THE WINELAND VOYAGES S WANTON 4I 



DATA FOR THE IDENTIFICATION OF SITES MENTIONED IN THE 

 WINELAND SAGAS 



Note: A doegr was 12-hours sailing time, but the distance covered in that 

 time varied widely, being given as from 50 miles to 200. 



Helluland : 



2 dcegr from Bear Id. southward (S). 



"Large flat stones, and many of these were twelve ells wide" (S). 

 "There were many Arctic foxes" (S). 



3 doegr from Markland; 4 from Greenland (F) (Biarni). 

 Reached from Markland with "southwesterly gales" (F). 

 "High and mountainous, with ice-mountains upon it" (F). 



On turning away for Greenland they found this was an island (F). 

 On leaving they still had a southwest wind (F) (Biarni). 

 Leif found "no grass there" (F). 



"Great ice mountains lay inland back from the sea, and it was a [table- 

 land of] flat rock all the way from the sea to the ice mountains" (F). 

 To Biarni it seemed "entirely devoid of good qualities" (F). 



Markland: 



Reached by sailing 2 doegr from Helluland with northerly winds (S). 



"Upon it was a great wood" (S). 



"And many wild beasts" (S). 



"An island lay oflf to the southeast, where they found a bear" and so 



named it Biarney (S). 

 According to one account 2 dcegr from next land; according to another 



apparently a coast continuous with it (S). 

 Reached by "a southerly wind" from Wineland (S). 

 2 doegr from another land "level and covered with woods," and with 



"small hillocks upon it" (F) (Biarni). 

 Reached by a "fair," presumably south wind (F) (Biarni). 

 "A flat and wooded country" (F) (Biarni). 

 (Leif) : "a level wooded land, and there were broad stretches of white 



sand, where they went, and the land was level by the sea" (F). 

 The land of the Unipeds seems to have been near or in it (S). 



Wonder-strands and Keelness : 



(Version i) : reached by sailing "southward for a long time." when 



they "came to a cape; the land lay upon the starboard; there were 



long strands and sandy banks there" (S). 

 Found keel of a ship upon the cape and called it Keelness (S). 

 Strands called Furdustrandir (Wonder-strands) "because they were 



so long to sail by" (S). 

 (Version 2) : reached in 2 dcegr from Markland (S). 

 "They sailed of? this land; there was a cape to which they came" (S). 

 "They beat into the wind along this coast, having the land upon the 



starboard side. This was a bleak coast, with long and sandy 



shores" (S). 

 (Naming of Keelness and Wonder-strands given same way) (S). 



