44 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. IO7 



On leaving the country Karlsefni "sailed to the northward ofif the 

 coast" (S). 



Find five Skrellings "clad in skin-doublets," and with "vessels beside 

 them, containing animal marrow, mixed with blood" (S). 



Mountains of Hop and those of Uniped country equally distant (from 

 Streamfirth) (S). 



"When they sailed away from Wineland, they had a southerly wind, 

 and so came upon Markland" (S). 



(F) See above for possible items. 



"At ebb-tide there were broad reaches of shallow water there, and 

 they ran their ship aground there, and it was a long distance from 

 the ship to the ocean; yet were they so anxious to go ashore that 

 they could not wait until the tide should rise under their ship, 

 but hastened to the land, where a certain river flows out from a 

 lake. As soon as the tide rose beneath their ship, however, they 

 took the boat and rowed to the ship, which they conveyed up the 

 river, and so into the lake, where they cast anchor and carried 

 their hammocks ashore from the ship, and built themselves booths 

 there. They afterwards determined to establish themselves there 

 for the winter, and they accordingly built a large house" (F). 



"There was no lack of salmon there either in the river or in the lake, 

 and larger salmon than they had ever seen before" (F), 



"The country thereabouts seemed to be possessed of such good qualities 

 that cattle would need no fodder there during the winters. There 

 was no frost there in the winters, and the grass withered but 

 little" (F). 



"The days and nights there were of more nearly equal length than in 

 Greenland or Iceland. On the shortest day of winter the sun was 

 up between 'eyktarstad' and 'dagmalastad' " (F). 



They explore country no farther than each party can return in a day 

 and a German among them finds grapes (F). 



Each day they gathered grapes or "cut vines" and felled trees with 

 which to load their ship (F). 



Thorvald and his party supplied themselves with food their first winter 

 in Wineland by fishing (F). 



Next summer "a few men" take "the after-boat, and proceed along the 

 western coast, and explore [the region] thereabouts during the 

 summer. They found it a fair, well-wooded country ; it was but a 

 short distance from the woods to the sea, and [there were] white 

 sands, as well as great numbers of islands and shallows. They 

 found neither dwelling of man nor lair of beast; but in one of the 

 westerly islands, they found a wooden building for the shelter 

 of grain. They found no other trace of human handiwork, and 

 they turned back, and arrived at Leif's-booths in the autumn" (F). 



Next summer "Thorvald set out toward the east with the ship and 

 along the northern coast," and came to Keelness (F). 



Thorvald's companions return to Wineland, spend winter and take 

 load of grapes and wood back to Greenland (F). 



Karlsefni on going to Wineland took "all kinds of cattle, as it was their 

 intention to settle the country, if they could" (F). 



