I am inclined to think that another instance of the same sort of confusion is to be traced in Hauk’s version of the story. After the resolve to return home on account of the savages, the author brings the party back to Straumsfjord. He then evidently wishes to incorporate some matter from different sources. So he first puts in a note of some information at variance with that just given, ‘Some men say’, &c., and then interpolates his version of the death of Thorvald Ericson, who, as has been pointed out in the chapter on the Flatey Book (p. 126), has really no place in this saga up to this point. It will be observed that in both versions Thorvald is killed on a voyage north past Keelness, where as one story has it, ‘it was all covered with wood’, while the other says, ‘there was nothing but desolate woods’. It seems most unlikely that Karlsefni’s party, after a definite resolve to return home, should have embarked on a fresh voyage of discovery, so, though the evidence may not be conclusive, I am inclined to think that the matter here incorporated was originally an account of an independent voyage undertaken by Thorvald, as given in the Flatey Book. The verses about the uniped, which are old, certainly mention Karlsefni, but, as Storm points out in his edition of the saga, the verses seem but loosely fitted to the context, and make no mention of the uniped’s ferocity. It seems probable therefore that the uniped is made to kill Thorvald in order that the lay may be worked in, just as the author works in the death-speech of Thormod Kolbrunarskald, with very little alteration and considerable infelicity, as the last words of Thorvald Ericson. Seeing, then, that we have reason to suspect confusions of this nature, it is plainly impossible to discriminate as much as could be wished between the different voyages, and we are thrown back mainly on Karlsefni, though Bjarni Herjulfson’s adventure is on rather a different footing, and can be investigated independently. _The Cardinal Points._