Produced by National Library of Iceland and Cornell University Library via www.sagnanet.is, Jóhannes Birgir Jensson, Sankar Viswanathan, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team of Distributed Proofreaders Europe at http://dp.rastko.net EIRIK THE RED'S SAGA: A TRANSLATION READ BEFORE THE LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF LIVERPOOL, JANUARY 12TH, 1880, BY THE REV. J. SEPHTON. LIVERPOOL: D. MARPLES & CO., LIMITED, MELVILL CHAMBERS. 1880. CONTENTS. 1. How Vifil, Gudrid's grandfather, came to Iceland. 2. Of Eirik the Red, and his discovery of Greenland. 3. Gudrid's parentage, and the emigration of her father, Thorbjorn, and his family to Greenland. 4. Eirik's family, and his son Leif's discovery of Vinland. 5. Gudrid marries Thorstein, son of Eirik the Red. [Sickness and death of Thorstein.] 6. Gudrid marries Karlsefni. 7. Karlsefni's expedition to Vinland. The first winter is passed at Straumsfjordr. 8. Fate of Thorhall the Sportsman. 9. The second winter is passed at Hop. 10. Dealings with the Skrœlingar. 11. Fight with the Skrœlingar. 12. Return to Straumsfjordr. 13. The slaying of Thorvald by a One-footer. The colonists return to Greenland after passing the third winter at Straumsfjordr. 14. Heroic magnanimity and fate of Bjarni. 15. Gudrid's descendants.