18 Gustav Horn. 
the Good, and came there where they supposed this land was, but 
they did not acquire any knowledge of it, nor obtained any of its pro- 
ducts (ok kæmi par er peir etludu pat land, ok nådu eigi ath Каппа 
ok eingum landz-kostum). Leif the Lucky first found Vinland, and he 
then found merchants in evil plight at sea, and restored them to life 
by God’s mercy; and he introduced Christianity into Greenland, which 
waxed there so, that an episcopal seat was established there, at the 
place called Gardar”. 
This account agrees to former very concise reports of Vinland and 
states that Leif found the country and that Thorfinn Karlsefni, whe 
started in search of it, reached a country which he believed to be Vin- 
land, but did not succeed in exploring it. It seems to appear from this, 
as Storm says, that Karlsefni’s voyage is indicated as the only voyage 
of exploration which starts with the aim of reaching Vinland, in con- 
sequence of this country being accidently discovered by Leif. 
EIRIKS ЗАСА ВАОРА AND GRÆNLENDINGA PATTR. — 
The saga tales about the Vinland voyages are to be found, as is well- 
known, in two different accounts, the one of which is called “Eiriks 
Saga Rauda”, and the other “Grænlendinga раб”, which is to be 
found in Flateyjarbok. 
Gustav Storm, and later Finnur Jonsson!) have come to the result 
that the contents of the Flateyjarbok’s Grenlendinga pättr ought not 
to be used without criticism. Finnur Jonsson writes?) that “the pattr 
is a spontaneous production of obscure, confused and disconnected 
traditional associations (or fragments), not without being influenced by 
the knowledge of Eric’s saga itself”. 
It is related in the Flateyjarbok’s “pattr Eiriks rauda”, that Bjarni 
Herjulfsson, on his voyage from Iceland to Greenland about 986, was 
blown far to the west and first reaches a land “without mountains and 
wooded, and had low hills”. They then left the land on their port 
side and after two days sailing they came to a “flat land covered with 
woods”, and later still, after three days sailing they came to a “high 
land covered with mountains and glaciers”. 
They turned the ship’s stern towards this land and sailed for 
four days over the sea before a rising south-west wind, and in that 
manner reached Greenland, without having set foot on the new countries. 
Storm and Jonsson both express themselves as sceptically about this 
tale of Bjarni’s discovery of America as about Grænlendinga pättr, 
and are of the opinion that the voyage never took place. 
1) Opdagelsen af og Rejserne til Vinland (Aarboger for nordisk Oldkyndighed 
og Historie. Kobenhavn. 1915). | 
2) op cit. р. 220. 
