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Saga. The beginning of the last chapter is as follows: 

 "The second summer (after landing in Greenland) 

 Thorfinn and his wife Gudrid went to Iceland." The 

 Tale of the Greenlanders states that they went from 

 Greenland to Norway in the summer after their re- 

 turn from Vinland, spent the winter there, sold their 

 goods, and proceeded the next summer to Iceland. It 

 is probable that the second version is nearer the truth, 

 for it is likely that Thorfinn had gathered quite a 

 cargo on his voyage to Greenland and Vinland, goods 

 that he could dispose of more easily in Norway than 

 in Iceland. 



The story of Thorfinn in Hauk's Book begins with 

 his genealogy and ends with a list of his descendants. 

 He was a good representative of a great family. His 

 father, Thord Horsehead, was a grandson of one of 

 the settlers of Iceland, who bore the same name and 

 who was the fourth or fifth man in direct male line 

 from the famous Ragnar Lodbrok, and whose wife 

 was the granddaughter of Kjarval, king of Ireland. 

 Thorfinn's grandmother on his father's side was the 

 daughter of Thord Gellir, who was a direct descend- 

 ant of kings, one after the other. Among Thorfinn's 

 descendants were Bishop Thorlak Runolfsson and 

 Bishop Bjorn Gislason, both his great-grandsons, 

 while Bishop Brand Ssemundsson was his great-great- 

 grandson. 



