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INTRODUCTION. 
of both sexes, and the requisite stores and cattle - 
for forming a settlement, put off for Greenland ; 
but only fourteen of the fleet arrived safe at their 
destination. The people in this part of the fleet, 
however, planted themselves on the new coast, 
and being soon joined by others, botli from Ice¬ 
land and Norway, they, in a few years, became a 
respectable colony. 
Christianity was introduced into Norway to¬ 
wards the end of the tenth century, by Bernard 
and Guthebald, it is said, two British Mission¬ 
aries, and was embraced, and zealously promoted 
by the King, Olaus Tryggeson. Leif, the son of 
Erie llauda, having made a voyage to Norway 
in the year 999, gave Olaus an account of the 
new colony in Greenland. On which the king, 
in his zeal for the extension of the true faith, 
prevailed upon Leif to be baptized, and to take 
out with him a Christian missionary, on his re¬ 
turn to Greenland. By their means Paganism 
began to be relinquished, and the milder, dispen¬ 
sation of the Gospel was soon introduced, and 
generally received both in Greenland and Ice¬ 
land. 
