NO. 12 THE WINELAND VOYAGES — S WANTON 43 



land on the north, and they stood in westering past the cape." (F). 

 (The above may, however, have been in Wineland.) 



Wineland: 



Leif is reported to have reached Wineland directly from Norway find- 

 ing "self-sown wheat fields and vines growing there. There were 



also those trees there which are called 'mausur,' and of all these 



they took specimens. Some of the timbers were so large that they 



were used in building" (S). 

 This was in the summer of looo (S). 

 (Gaels said to have found self-sown wheat and grapes by running 



south from Stream firth) (S). 

 Karlsefni comes to it by cruising southward "off the coast" from 



Streamfirth (S). 

 "They sailed for a long time" (S). 

 There was "a river, which flowed down from the land into a lake, and 



so into the sea. There were great bars at the mouth of the river, so 



that it could only be entered at the height of the flood-tide," so 



they called it Hop (S). 

 "They found self-sown wheat fields on the land there, wherever there 



were hollows, and wherever there was hilly ground, there were 



vines" (S). 

 "Every brook there was full of fish. They dug pits, on the shore where 



the tide rose highest, and when the tide fell, there were halibut in 



the pits" (S). 

 "There were great numbers of animals of all kinds in the woods" (S). 

 "They had their live-stock with them" (S). 

 "Skrellings" come "in skin-canoes, and staves were brandished from the 



boats, with a noise like flails, and they were revolved in the same 



direction in which the sun moves; when they came to fight these 



were revolved in the opposite direction" (S). 

 "They were swarthy men, and ill-looking, and the hair of their heads 



was ugly. They had great eyes, and were broad of cheek" (S). 

 They came from the southward around a point (S). 

 "No snow came there [the first winter] and all of their live-stock lived 



by grazing" (S). 

 The Skrellings bought red cloths, exchanging for them "peltries and 



quite gray skins"; bound cloth about heads (S). 

 They also desired to buy "swords and spears," but it was forbidden (S). 

 Skrellings scared away owing to bellowing of a bull and come back 



to fight (S). 

 "The Skrellings had war-slings" (S). 

 They raised on a pole "a great ballshaped body, almost the size of a 



sheep's belly, and nearly black in color." They hurled it up on the 

 land "and it made a frightful noise, where it fell" (S). 

 Norse fled up along river bank "until they came to certain jutting 



crags, where they offered a stout resistance" (S). 

 Forest near the lake (S). 



One Norseman had "his skull cleft by a flat stone" (S). 

 Had "delusion" of being attacked by another party from the forest ( S ) . 



