he was drivemback againito Greened'} toa plafie- called Ujfefiord}
kheing very lato in,^e/a\itutn%,~'Vrh^S';he,'r£S well as !moft: '6f
hislpeople, ■ died of the plague. - During thewinter their' bodies
were put into cjaefts and prelerved, and iU*the- i|jrihg!th4^‘%tfd all
carried 1 to Ericnsfiord, and decently»interred'.
Thofftenk wife, whofe name Was Gttdndj* ;nim,f iaridl
afterwards married an Icelander, who was called Thorfin Karlfefhe}
and lately come to Greenland 'feoni;Worv^j^!WnR'Th<»td
fin was perfuaded by his wife and others tbjgd! to Viirfland. ' Accordingly
heofet M Wit# fixty ’tetieh,befideS:)Jh i sand ^ f i j f e
other women. ; He alfo took with hirti as hbaos'of caftle'Ss
lie could ftow in thedhip, and had the liberty of fivihg in LieFs
hpufc, for it was not ^iven hifti. ' Hfe arrived'1 fafe Jat"Vimlafid^
where there w$as! ho feafcity of afiy thing neceffery to fopporflife'^
fot befides. plenty inf fiih, and'thefruitstof the fe&rf h ƒ 'ffiey fohnd
a large whale driven upon the
reidr-whale ; of this kind feme -
feet long, and their flelh tasftes vdry touch like1 hedf. *! ftefi'des all
this, it was a pleafent fertile country, ; and afforded; jnenty df ^rals,
lo that a bull they had brought with them grefo' fewild and
untradtabfe with high ke^E^'tlMt''th^:'8 ^ d ^ t 'f f i l^ p ,in i^ J
In this manner
the Skralingers approached them' ft ugjra
commodities, which confiftedof lfidfes^ffik^ and f ' bu!t when
they few the bull, and heard
mg, they were fo terrified that tlley fled with ptecipifetfori
to their houfes, and in thdrhurt?y to ^^hrti'^roke’hp^h mrtie of
the doors. The Greenlahdefs d?dhbfhi<feMahtf mfe# lffi^'uage,J
nor they. theGreenlanders ; rbut, 'by flghs had motStif, tffojr Uiider-
ftood that the Skfadingfera 'were1 eoirie to * toaddwifo'th&h, ’ and
chofe to have iron; and arms in exchange fortheif Thoifih
forbade all his.people to fell them iron, but gave thefo mflh feffd
other food, which the Skraellngers feetoed very fond of, and pre-
fented him with: fevefal valuable things in return for1 their' good
cheer, j
When,they were ,’gofie, Thorfin fet abbiif hoarding his hqiifo'
ah round with? thick planks.1 All this happ^iiHdduripg.the firft:
year of their refidence iii that country, ? ;
The
Th&fbMowing^furfinleS the Skraelifigérs bamoragaiipi to Thorfin
in .Vinfend; and one of them was killed for attempting to ileal
an ax from l^r€j!€tfalan(lèFs.''^C^tdÉi reft went aWay,
S^^^t’ieapingrniy-gteat' advantage front their furrs, or other
commodities. !
•• - The third fetonfer they* camfefagain- without any goods, ;and
preparedfior- war, fpk had no luccefs, having loft a great many
of their Uien. • ■ Theie-was one inftance happened,: which difco*«
Vers thofe people to fcje;vety<f igndrant and .ftupid«p one -of them
laid hold of an ax which the < Greenlanders had carèlefly .dropped1,'
and bejngideflfotis -to, know theviffeidf-it, 'b y «trying) an experiment,
ftruck one ©f-his companions ’on-the head with it,--with
all- his-might. 1 This | beings obfer-Ved ;by one of their company,
whb feemed to be;fuperior:'to/the reft, «and *.was,,py,p,bably .then-
chief, hetook:theax and.examined it ; then he wént down to
the water-fide, and threw it as far-as-he could into the fea. - By;
this wc may judge, that .they do not know.how to ufe any other
inftrumeht but their arrows. •
. At the .expiration of three years; Thorfin left.Viriland, in order
tO:t.vifit- his inotheKCountryf and carried, many-,-valuable« things
with < hirb. After this expedition fevefaladventurers,- both from
Iceland}:; and Greenland, took <S‘: fancyttogO :to Vinland.'' Two
men who-were called 'Helgqjiknd'Pimboy,»'-&iled{ firft -eaftward
feqm Ic^lahd-to Norway, ;md|ftom thenéé totGreenknd} where a
woman,* yhpfe name was Treidis, perfuaded them' to go to Vin^-1'
land* oThey accordingly*, failed thither in two of their pwn fhips,
with fixty.men, and. the aforefaid.Trëidis; who was :fifter to Teif;
pnd had. feed in his houfe- whilftvhe was in Vinlandb But when
they had abeery there but a fhort.time^ thirty-.of« them were >de-
ftroyed. by the deceit and perfidy of. that wicked woman.- And
the*.flieswas daughter to Erich Rode,.and Leif’s'<flfter,. flie Was
ftiJl far %om lefembling them in their.virtues} for-fhe-was envious}
proud, dnd the «inoft abandonéd; Of her: fe^
I The above-mentibned Thorfin, .went from Greenland.to Norway,
aiid was héld in’great} efteem-öand- refpeOt ;fór his: Vinland^
expedition;\ and-when -he,twas; igoing - to depart ,'-for -Iceland, and
juft, rqady to feil,^he'me'towith a foreigner from Bremen, who
defired‘ him fo fell him a piece of. timber that he had in his pof*
■ " PaktTI. O o o feffion,