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dwelt there before. They therefore determined to return to their own 
country, and prepared to depart. They sailed to the northward off the 
coast, and found five sleeping Skrælings, clad in coats of skin . ... 
They afterwards found a cape, upon which there was a great number 
of animals, and this cape looked as if it were one cake of dung, by reason 
of the animals which lay there during the winter"). They now arrived 
again at Straumsfjord, where they found great abundance of all those 
things of which they stood in need. 
Some men say (Er pat sumra manna sogn), that Bjarni and Freydis 
remained behind here with а hundred men, and went no further; while 
Karlsefni and Snorri proceeded to the southward with forty men, and 
stayed at Höp?) barely two months, and returned the same summer. 
Karlsefni then set out with one ship, in search of Thorhall, but 
the greater part of the company remained behind. They sailed to the 
northward past Kjalarness, and then bore to the westward with. the 
land on their port side; there were wooded wildernesses there. And 
when they had sailed a long time, a river flowed down from the east 
toward the west. They entered the mouth of the river, and lay to by 
the southern bank... . They sailed away back toward the north, and 
believed they had got sight of the land of the Unipeds; nor were they 
disposed to risk the lives of their men any longer. [They intended to 
explore all the mountains, those which were at Höp, and those which 
they discovered?). 
They sailed back, and passed the third winter at Straumsfjord. 
Then the men began to divide into factions, the unmarried men claiming 
the wives of those who were married. Snorri, Karlsefni’s son, was born 
the first autumn, and was [there “pann’*) when they went away;?) 
they got a southerly wind and came to Markland, where they found 
five Skrælings, . . .. They said, that another country lay on the other 
side, opposite to their own, where people lived who wore white garments, 
and uttered loud cries, and carried poles, and went with flags (flikr). 
People believe that this must have been Hvitramannaland. [Now they 
came to Greenland, and stayed with Eric the Red for the winter®). 
Bjarni Grimolfsson was driven with his ship into the Greenland 
SER 
_ 7) Hauksbök has: “at night”. 
2) М has: “verit i Вай” instead of “verit i Hopi’. 
3) From | Hauksbök has: “They concluded that the mountains of Нор were 
the same as those which they now viewed, and there appeared to be nearly the 
same distance from Straumsfjord to both places”. 
*) It is not clear to what the “bann” refers. From | Hauksbok has: “three 
winters old”; M has: “with his father”. 
5) Hauksbok adds: “on sailing from Vinland”’ 
3) In Hauksbök this sentence is lacking. 
7) Hauksbok has: “Ireland Sea”. 
