IN AUDUBON'S LABRADOR 



Northern Mists," by Fridtjof Nansen; and 

 "The Voyages of Norsemen to America," by 

 Professor WiUiam Hovgaard. From all of 

 these I have freely drawn for the following 

 brief r6sum6 of the subject. 



Although the discovery of America by the 

 Norsemen took place about the year looo, 

 detailed accounts of the Vinland voyages are 

 not recorded until the thirteenth century in 

 the "Saga of Eric the Red," and in the four- 

 teenth, in the "Flatey Book." From the latter 

 it appears that a young man named Bjarne 

 Herjulfsson, intending to sail to Greenland 

 from Iceland to visit his father, missed reckon- 

 ings owing to northerly winds and fogs and 

 finally reached a land which was "flat and 

 wooded." The men knew it could not be 

 Greenland, but Bjarne refused to go ashore 

 and investigate; he turned away, and after 

 many days reached Greenland. In the "Saga 

 of Eric the Red" it was Leif who, sailing from 

 Norway to Greenland, discovered this land. 

 The "Flatey Book" says he followed Bjarne's 

 directions and landed where "no grass grew 

 and great glaciers were seen inland, while the 

 coast between the glaciers and the sea looked 

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