29 Gustav Hozm. 
(hellur), [so large, that two men could well spurn soles upon them (i. e. 
Пе at full length upon them, sole to sole)!); there were many Arctic 
foxes there. They gave а name to the country, and called it Helluland. 
Then they sailed with northerly winds two days (dægr)?), and land 
then lay before them, and upon it was a great wood and many wild 
_ beasts; an island lay off the land to the south-east, and there they 
found a bear, and they called this Bjarney (Bear Island), while the 
land where the wood was they called Markland (Forest-land). 
[Then when two days had elapsed, they sighted (sja) land, 
and they sailed off this land; there was a cape to which they сатез). 
They beat along this coast, having the land upon the starboard side. 
This was a bleak coast (üræfi), with long and sandy shores. They went 
ashore in boats, and found the keel of a ship, so they called the place 
Kjalarness (Keelness); they likewise gave a name to the strands, and 
called them Furdustrands, because they were long to sail past. 
Then the country became fjordeut (vägskorit), and they steered 
their ships into the bays’) . . .. Now when they had sailed past Furdu- 
strands, they put the Scotts?) ashore, and directed them to run to the 
southward, and investigate the nature of the country, and return again 
before the end of the third day.... Karlsefni and his companions cast 
anchor, and lay there for this period; and when three days had passed, 
they ran down from the land, and one of them had in the hand a grape- 
cluster®), and the other wheat self-sown. They told Karlsefni that they 
thought that they had found that the resources of the land were good. 
They received them into their ship, and went their ways, till the country 
was fjordeut. 
They took the ships into the fjord. There was an island outside, 
about which there were strong currents, wherefore they called it 
Straumsey. There were so many birds on the island, that it was scaresly 
possible to step between the eggs. [They sailed into the fjord (реш 
heldu inn med firdinum)’), and called it Straumsfjord, and carried their 
cargoes ashore from the ships, and established themselves there. They 
had brought with them all kinds of live-stock. They explored the 
nature of the land. There were mountains there, and the country 
round about was fair to look upon. They did nought but explore the 
country. [There was tall grass there (par varu gros mikil)?). 
1) From [ Hauksbok has: “and many of these were twelve ells wide”. 
2) Hauksbok adds: “and bore away from the south toward the south-east”’. 
3) From [ Haulsbök has: “Thence they coasted south for a long while, and 
came to a cape”. 
4) Haulsbök has: “into a bay”. 
5) As noticed by Finnur Jénsson the episode of the Scotts is obviously inserted 
from another source. 
6) АМ. 557 has “vinker’’, doubtless a clericel error for “vinber’’, grapes. 
7) From [ omitted in Hauksbök. 
