were along the sides. In the stern of each boat was
a little cabin. Here the women and children were to sleep. But the men
would sleep on the timbers in the middle of the boat and perhaps they
would put up the awning sometimes.

At last everyone was aboard. Men loosed the rope that held the boats.
The ships flashed down the rollers into the water, and Ingolf and Leif
were off for Iceland. As they sailed away everyone looked back at the
shore of old Norway. There were tears in the women's eyes. Helga, Leif's
wife, sang:

"There was I born. There was I wed.
There are my father's bones.
There are the hills and fields,
The streams and rocks that I love.
There are houses and temples,
Women and warriors and feasts,
Ships and songs and fights--
A crowded, joyous land.
I go to an empty land."

There was the same long voyage with storm and fog. But at last the
people saw again the white cloud and saw it growing into land and
mountains. Then Ingolf took the pillars of his high seat and threw them
overboard.

"Guide them to a good place, O Thor!" he cried.

The waves caught them up and rolled them about. Ingolf followed them
with his ship. But soon a storm came up. The men had to take down the
sails and masts, and they could do nothing with their oars. The two
ships tossed about in the sea wherever the waves sent them. The pillars
drifted away, and Ingolf could not see them.

"Remember your pillars, O Thor!" he cried.

Then he saw that Leif's ship was being driven far off.

"Ah, my foster-brother," he thought, "shall I not have you to cheer me
in this empty land? O Thor, let him not go down to the caves of Ran! He
is too good a man for that."

On the next day the storm was not so hard, and Ingolf put in at a good
harbor. A high rocky point stuck out into the sea. A broad bay with
islands in the mouth was at the side. Behind the rocky point was a
level green place with ice-mountains shining far back.

After a day or two Ingolf said:

"I will go look for my pillars."

So he and a few men got into the rowboat and went along the shore and
into all the fiords, but they could not find the pillars. After a week
they came back, and Ingolf said:

"I will build a house here to live in while I look for the posts. This
way is uncomfortable for the women."

So he did. Then he set out again to look for the pillars, but he had no
better luck and came back.

"I must stay at home and see