[34] From [ Hauk’s Book has: ‘Thence they coasted south for a long while, and came to a cape’, &c. [35] Hauk’s Book; Eric’s Saga has ‘bjafal’. The word is clearly Gaelic. Nansen suggests an Irish word, ‘cabhail’, the body of a shirt. Or possibly ‘gioball’ = garment. [36] Hauk’s Book has ‘newly-sown’. [37] Hauk’s Book: ‘eiders’. [38] From [ omitted in Hauk’s Book. [39] These verses follow the Hauk’s Book text, which is here less corrupt than the other. [40] See note 39 on previous page. [41] So Hauk’s Book; the companion text has ‘small’. [42] Lit. as many as if it had been sowed with coal. [43] Following Hauk’s Book, as the clearer text. [44] Hauk’s Book has ‘several’. [45] i.e. sent from Hóp, as hostile emissaries or spies. [46] Hauk’s Book: ‘at night’. [47] Hauk’s Book: ‘Gudrid’. [48] Here follows this narrative’s version of the death of Thorvald. (See Appendix, p. 77.) [49] Following Hauk’s text. Eric’s Saga reads, ‘They intended to explore all those mountains which were at Hóp, and those which they found.’ It continues ‘they went back, and the third winter’, &c. [50] Following Hauk’s text. [51] Hauk’s Book, probably more correctly ‘Ireland’. [52] Hauk’s Book gives a different reason. ‘All thought this such a manly offer that no one would speak against it.’ [53] See Appendix, p. 83. [54] The text has ‘Karlsefni’, an obvious slip. [55] The meaning of this word is uncertain. [56] A mistake. Hallfrid was the wife of Runolf, and mother of Bishop Thorlak. [57] The dying speech ascribed here to Thorvald is evidently borrowed from that of Thormod Kolbrunarskald after the battle of Stiklestad, where the point is much more easy to grasp. Thorvald means that he has come to a land providing plenty of nourishment, otherwise he would not be fat. [58] Following Hauk’s text, to supply what is illegible in the other version. [59] Following Hauk’s text, the other version being badly confused here. [60] Or, ‘he lords it over all the apparitions’, etc. [61] I have heard of a similar custom in the more remote parts of Norway at the present day, where the visits of the priest are infrequent. The only difference is that earth is sprinkled into the hole when the funeral service is read, instead of holy water. [62] Word omitted in MS. [63] Hauk’s Book, ‘Gudrid’. [64] _Prolegom. to Sturlunga_, p. xxv. [65] _Prolegom. to Sturlunga_, p. xxxvii. [66] Ibid., p. xxxi. [67] See below, p. 108. [68] _Early Norse Visits to North America._ Washington, 1913. [69] _Die Entdeckungen der Normannen in Amerika._ Freiburg, 1902. [70] _Opdagelsen af og Reiserne til Vinland_, Aarbog for Nordisk Oldkyndighed, etc., for 1915. [71] _Prolegom. to Sturlunga_, p. lix. [72] Aarbog for Nordisk Oldkynd. og Hist. 1887. [73] Since this chapter was written, my attention has been called to W. Hovgaard’s _Voyages of the Norsemen to America_ (1915), in which the Flatey Book is defended.