[7] So Landnámabók, Hauk’s Book, and Flatey Book: Eric’s Saga has ‘Hvitserk’. [8] Flatey Book and some texts of Landnámabók have ‘Eastern Settlement’. The Eastern Settlement was near Julianehaab, the Western near Godthaab. Both were thus on the west coast of Greenland. [9] Hauk’s Book. [10] Omitted in Flatey Book. [11] What follows is transcribed in the Flatey version only. [12] Flatey Book. [13] Flatey Book has ‘35’. [14] Hauk’s Landnámabók and some other texts have ‘Snorri’. In fact Snorri Thorbrandson went out later, as will be seen. [15] There must be an error in supposing this Vifil to have been the father of Thorgeir and Thorbjörn. Even if we consider Vifil to have been captured as a boy, and to belong to the generation of Aud’s grandson, Olaf Feilan, we know that Thorgeir and Thorbjörn were of the generation of Snorri Godi and Thord Horsehead, the great-grandsons of Olaf Feilan, as their daughters married the sons of these persons respectively. (See Genealogical Table, p. 20.) It will be seen, moreover, later on, that Thorbjörn Vifilson looked down on the son of a slave, which would hardly have been the case had he been one himself. (See _post_, p. 32). [16] i.e. a chant for attracting spirits. [17] See note at end of section. [18] At this point, on the voyage to Greenland, comes the accidental discovery of Wineland by Leif, as given in this version. For this see Appendix, p. 76. [19] i.e. as he had formerly led the expedition to Greenland. Finnur Jónsson sees in the word _enn_ (‘still’) a reminiscence of Thorstein’s voyage in Eric’s Saga; this interpretation, however, seems unnecessarily far-fetched. [20] Lit: ‘the sun had there eykt-place and dagmál-place on the shortest day’. See Part II, Chapter V. [21] The text adds:—‘Eric the Red died also that winter.’ I am disposed to think this statement probable, but as Eric is frequently mentioned later on in the alternative version, I omit this from the story. (See, however, Part II, Chapter II, p. 135.) [22] See note at end of section. [23] _Skrælingar._ [24] See note at end of this section. [25] This is corroborated by Gretti’s Saga, Chaps. 14 and 30, where one ‘Thorhall Gamlison the Winelander’ is mentioned. [26] Hauk’s Book: ‘Eric’. [27] Following the text of Hauk’s Book, as the clearer sense. [28] The copyist of Eric’s Saga misplaces this sentence, putting it before ‘with much playing’. Hauk’s is the preferable reading. [29] Hauk’s Book: ‘spring’. [30] Hauk’s Book corrects this to ‘Thorvard, who married Freydis, an illegitimate daughter of Eric the Red’, but adds ‘and Thorvald Ericson’. Cf. Part II, Chapter II, p. 126. [31] Plural, therefore he had been with Eric many years. [32] Hauk’s Book: ‘with Thorvard and Thorvald’. [33] Eric’s Saga says, ‘forty men of the second hundred’. Hauk’s Book has, ‘forty men and a hundred’. As the Icelandic hundred was 120, this means 160 in each case.