36 THE VINLAND VOYAGES 



mals, so that it looked as if it were a cake of dung, 

 because of the animals that lay there at night. Karlsef ni 

 and his men arrived in Streamfjord and found there 

 plenty of everything that they needed." The author 

 adds the following remark: "Some say that Bjarni and 

 Gudrid and one hundred men with them remained 

 behind (in Streamfjord) and did not go farther, but 

 Thorfinn and Snorri and forty men with them went 

 south, staying in Hop barely two months and return- 

 ing the same summer." Then follows the account of 

 Karlsefni's trip to seek Thorhall the Hunter, which 

 has been dealt with above (p. 24). In this connection it 

 is worth noticing that that voyage rather indicates, as 

 Gustav Holm has pointed out,^^ that Karlsefni did not 

 spend a whole winter in Hop but returned the same 

 summer to Streamfjord. Yet the description of their 

 voyage to Hop and all that happened to them there 

 may be historical nevertheless. 



It was mentioned above that Keelness was possibly 

 Cape Gaspe, and Streamfjord Chaleur Bay, as Hall- 

 dor Hermannsson suggests. Assuming this, one must 

 conclude that, when it is said that Karlsefni sailed 

 from Streamfjord "southward round the country" to 

 Hop, he went south around Nova Scotia. Now the 

 story relates in connection with their voyage north 

 when seeking Thorhall the Hunter that "They sailed 



^^ Holm, of. cit.y pp. 33-34. 



