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winter on Cape Cod. From this description 

 of the climate and the statement of Tyrker 

 the German it is plain that the Saga wishes 

 to convey the impression that the real grape 

 was found. 



Nansen says: "Apart from the surprising cir- 

 cumstance of the Icelanders having called a 

 country Wineland the Good because whortle- 

 berries [mountain cranberries] grew there, the 

 explanation is inadmissible on the ground 

 that whortle-berries were never called vinber 

 [wine-berries] in old Norse or Icelandic. ... In 

 ancient times the Norse people did not know 

 how to make wine from any berry but the 

 black crowberry [curlew-berry]; but there are 

 plenty of these in Greenland, and it was not 

 necessary to travel to Labrador to collect 

 them." Hovgaard says it is "at least improb- 

 able that the name vinber was applied gener- 

 ally in Scandinavia to berries other than the 

 grape at the time of the Vinland voyages." 

 He finds that Bishop Jon taught the people of 

 Iceland to make wine from Krcekiber in the 

 year 1203, or after the time of the Vinland 

 voyages. Krcekiber is the crowberry or cur- 

 lew-berry. 



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