[74] This was written before the appearance of Professor Steensby’s monograph, which will be dealt with later (p. 237). This author brings his explorers into the Gulf of St. Lawrence, but I adhere to my opinion. [75] If the statement of the Flóamanna Saga can be relied on, Eric as a young man, already grown up, was with Haakon Jarl in Norway at the time when the latter ‘took the kingdom’, i.e. immediately after Harald Greyfell’s death (_c._ 970). The passage refers to Eric as an ‘Icelander’, but must almost necessarily relate to the period before Eric’s emigration from Norway. [76] According to the Fóstbraeðra Saga, when Thormod Kolbrunarskald visited Greenland about five years before his death at Stiklestad (1030) Eric’s grandson, Thorkel Leifson, had succeeded to Brattahlid. [77] _In Northern Mists_, vol. ii, pp. 20–21. [78] _In Northern Mists_, vol. i, p. 335. [79] _In Northern Mists_, vol, i, p. 346. [80] _In Northern Mists_, vol. i, p. 359. [81] See Stearn’s _New England Bird Life_, Part II, p. 362. [82] _In Northern Mists_, vol. i, p. 345, and cf. p. 360. [83] Force’s Tracts, vol. ii, p. 61. [84] _In Northern Mists_, vol. ii, p. 75. [85] ‘There were then Christian men here, those whom the Norsemen call Papar, but they went away afterwards, because they would not live here with heathen men, and they left behind them Irish books and bells and croziers: from which it might be inferred that they were Irishmen.’ [86] W. G. Gosling, _Labrador_, p. 17. [87] Cf. Frobisher’s first voyage, in Hakluyt, ‘And so _with a white cloth_ brought one of their boates with their men along the shoare, rowing after our boate.’ [88] See _In Northern Mists_, vol. ii, pp. 8–10. [89] _Norse Visits to North America_, p. 157. [90] The most that can be said is that the ‘lld’ sound occurring in three of the four words was probably characteristic of the language. Mr. Thalbitzer permits himself an unrestricted range through the Eskimo vocabulary for words resembling in sound those cited in the saga. This obviously leaves room for a considerable chance of merely accidental resemblance. Mr. Thalbitzer’s equivalents for ‘Vætilldi’ and ‘Uvægi’ are ‘uwätille’ and ‘uwätje’, meaning ‘wait a little, please’ and ‘wait a little’. The ‘ll’ we are told is strongly aspirated, and may be represented by ‘tl’. By a curious coincidence, which shows the danger of arguing on these lines, these Eskimo words have almost the same sound as their English rendering—‘you wait a little’, ‘you wait’. [91] _In Northern Mists_, vol. i, p. 354. [92] So Hauk: other texts have simply ‘west to Greenland’. [93] _Irish Place Names_, vol. i, p. 106. [94] Troil’s _Letters on Iceland_, 1780, p. 118. [95] _Corpus Poeticum Boreale_, vol. i, p. 430. [96] This was written before the appearance of Professor Steensby’s monograph, which is dealt with in a postscript (p. 237). [97] See Troil’s _Letters on Iceland_, p. 105.