42 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. IO7 



"Then the country became indented with bays" (S). 



Gaels put ashore after passing Wonder-strands (S). 



Thorhall sails from Streamfirth "past Wonder-strands and Keelness, 

 intending to cruise to the westward around the cape" (S). 



Karlsefni sails from Streamfirth in search of Thorhall "northward 

 around Keelness, and then bears to the westward, having land to 

 the larboard" ; comes to a river flowing from east to west in wooded 

 wilderness; sails "back to north" on leaving (S). 



Thorvald's ship driven ashore by a high wind after he had set out from 

 Wineland "toward the east" and "along the northern coast." The 

 ship repaired there and keel set up upon cape, which is therefore 

 called Keelness (F). 



Sails "eastward off the land, and into the mouth of the adjoining firth, 

 and to a headland covered entirely with woods" (F). 



Streamfirth (Straumfiord), and Straumey (Stream Isle) : 



Coming to a country indented with bays they entered one at the mouth 

 of which was an island "about which there were strong currents, 

 wherefore they called it Straumey (Stream Isle). There were so 

 many birds there, that it was scarcely possible to step between the 

 eggs" (S). 



"They sailed through the firth" (S). 



Established themselves there for the winter with "all kinds of live- 

 stock" (S). 



"It was a fine country" (S). 



"There were mountains thereabouts" (S). 



"They occupied themselves exclusively with the exploration of the 

 country" (S). 



In consequence when "fishing began to fail they began to fall short of 

 food" (S). 



Capture a whale but made ill from eating it (S). 



Situation improves later and "they could hunt game on the land, gather 

 eggs on the island, and catch fish from the sea" (S). 



Though Gaels had found grapes according to an earlier part of episode, 

 Thorhall's ditty indicates that they had not (S). 



Karlsefni "sailed for a long time" from here to reach Wineland (S). 



To reach it he "cruised southward off the coast," and on his return 

 "sailed to the northward off the coast" (S). 



Returned to Streamfirth in spring or early summer, "and found great 

 abundance of all those things of which they stood in need" (S). 



Mountains in "Land of the Unipeds" believed to form one chain 

 with those of Hop "because they were about an equal distance re- 

 moved from Streamfirth, in either direction" (S). 



Perhaps referred to in the following passages in (F) : After leaving 

 Markland they "sailed away upon the main with north-east winds," 

 and sighted land after 2 doegr. "They sailed towards this land, and 

 came to an island which lay to the northward off the land" (F). 



Dew sweet to the taste found there (F). 



"They went aboard their ship again and sailed into a certain sound, 

 which lay between the island and a cape which jutted out from the 



