, where they were able to
recount great tidings to Lief....

There was now much talk anew about a Wineland voyage, for this was
reckoned both a profitable and an honorable enterprise. The same
summer that Karlsefni arrived from Wineland a ship from Norway arrived
in Greenland. This ship was commanded by two brothers, Helgi and
Finnbogi, who passed the winter in Greenland. They were descended from
an Icelandic family of the East-firths. It is now to be added that
Freydis, Eric's daughter, set out from her home at Gardar, and waited
upon the brothers, Helgi and Finnbogi, and invited them to sail with
their vessel to Wineland, and to share with her equally all of the
good things which they might succeed in obtaining there. To this they
agreed, and she departed thence to visit her brother Lief, and ask him
to give her the house which he had caused to be erected in Wineland;
but he made her the same answer [as that which he had given
Karlsefni], saying that he would lend the house, but not give it. It
was stipulated between Karlsefni and Freydis that each should have on
shipboard thirty able-bodied men, besides the women; but Freydis
immediately violated this compact by concealing five men more [than
this number], and this the brothers did not discover before they
arrived in Wineland. They now put out to sea, having agreed beforehand
that they would sail in company, if possible, and, altho they were not
far apart from each other, the brothers arrived somewhat in advance,
and carried their belongings up to Lief's house.

[1] From "The Saga of Eric the Red," as given in the "Old South
Leaflets." Two different versions of this saga exist, the first
written by Hauk Erlendsson between 1305 and 1334; the second by
Jon Thordharson, about 1387. Both are believed to have been based
on writings that had come down from the time of the explorations.

Confirmation of the truth of the Norwegian discovery is given in
a book by Adam of Bremen, who visited Denmark between 1047 and
1073, and makes reference to Norwegian colonies founded in
Iceland and Greenland and in another country which was "called
Vinland on account of the wild grapes that grow there." Mention
is also made by this writer of corn as growing in Vinland without
cultivation. He declares his statements to be based on "trustworthy
reports of the Danes." John Fiske thought Vinland lay somewhere
between Point Judith and C