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nowned voyages and endeavored, at least twice, to 

 retrace the steps of Thorfinn and Leif. In some old 

 Icelandic annals it is stated that Eric Gnupsson (nick- 

 named Pollock), bishop of the Greenlanders, went to 

 seek Vinland in 1 1 2 1 . Nothing more is related about 

 the voyage, and one may infer that Eric did not return. 

 Three years later a new bishop was appointed in 

 Greenland. In 1347 a small ship from Greenland 

 was driven by storm to the coast of Iceland j there were 

 seventeen or eighteen men on board. The ship had 

 made a voyage to Markland. Several Icelandic annals 

 relate that the ship went to Norway the following 

 summer. The original voyage was probably made to 

 get timber, but whether the ship ever reached Mark- 

 land is not known. 



We shall now turn again to the Saga of Eric the 

 Red regarding Thorfinn's search for Thorhall the 

 Hunter. It has been dealt with above (p. 25) as re- 

 gards Keelness, and we considered it likely that Thor- 

 finn went north around Cape Gaspe and west along 

 the Gaspe Peninsula. In the second place it has been 

 mentioned, in connection with Streamfjord, that this 

 voyage of Thorfinn's implies that Streamfjord was 

 not identical with the estuary of the St. Lawrence 

 River. 



It is not possible to ascertain what river is referred 

 to in the narrative, possibly one of those far within 



