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986, that is, in the year 1000 or thereabouts, Leif, the same who had brought the Christian priest to Greenland, taking with him 35 companions, sailed from Greenland in quest of the land seen by Bjarni, which Leif first found where a barren shore stretched back to ice-covered mountains, and because of the stones there, he called the region Helialand, proceeding farther south
he found a sandy shore with a level forest country back of it and because of the woods it was named mark land two days later they came upon another land and tasting the dew upon the grass they found it sweet farther south and westerly they went and going up a river came into an expanse of water where on the shores they built huts to lodge in for the winter and sent out exploring parties in one of these turker
a native of a part of Europe where grapes grew, found vines hung with their fruit, which induced Leaf to call the country Vinland.
Attempts have been made to identify these various regions by the inexact accounts of the direction of their sailing, by the very general descriptions of the country, by the number of days occupied in going from one point to another, with the uncertainty if the ship sailed at night, and by the length of the shortest day in Vinland.
the last a statement that might help us if it could be interpreted with a reasonable concurrence of opinion and if it were not confused with other inexplicable statements the next year leif's brother thorwald went to vinland with a single ship and passed three winters there making explorations meanwhile south and north
Thorfinn Carlsefni, arriving in Greenland in A.D.
1006, married a courageous widow named Gudrid, who induced him to sail with his ships to Vinland and make there a permanent settlement, taking with him livestock and other necessities for colonization.
Their first winter in the place was a severe one, but Gudrid gave birth to a son, Snor, from whom it is claimed Thorvaldsen, the Danish sculptor, was descendant.
the next season they were moved to the spot where leith had wintered and called the bay hop having spent a third winter in the country karlsefni with a part of the colony returned to greenland the saga then goes on to say that trading voyages to the settlement which had been formed by karlsefni now became frequent and that the chief lading of the returned voyages was timber which was much needed in greenland a bishop of greenland eric
is also said to have gone to vinland in a d eleven twenty one in thirteen forty seven the last ship of which we have any record in these sagas went to vinland after timber after this all is oblivion there are in all these narratives many details beyond this outline and those who have sought to identify localities have made the most they could of the mention of a rock here or a bluff there of an island where they killed a bear
of others where they found eggs of a headland where they buried a leader who had been killed of a cape shaped like a keel of broad-faced natives who offered furs for red cloths of beaches where they hauled up their ships and of tides that were strong but the more these details are scanned in the different sagas the more they confuse the investigator and the more successive
try to enlighten us the more our doubts are strengthened till we end with the conviction that all attempts at consistent unravelment leave nothing but a vague sense of something somewhere done end of section two
Section twenty six of Great Epics in American History Volume one This is a Libravox recording.
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Great Epics in American History Volume one Voyages of Discovery and Early Explorations one thousand AD to sixteen eighty two by Francis Whiting Halsey.
Section twenty six Hudson's Discovery of the Hudson River, sixteen oh nine, by Robert Jewitt, Hudson's Secretary.
The first of september sixteen oh nine, fair weather, the wind variable between east and south, we steered away north northwest.
At noon we found our height to be thirty nine degrees three minutes.
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