So early in the spring they made the ship ready which had belonged to the brothers, and loaded it with all the good things which they could collect and the ship would hold. After this they put to sea, and had a rapid voyage, and came with their ship to Ericsfjord early in the summer. Karlsefni was there then, ready to put to sea, and waiting for a breeze, and it is said that no richer ship ever left Greenland than this which he commanded. Freydis now went to her house, which had stood safe meanwhile, and having given large presents to all her followers, because she wished to hush up her misdeeds, she settled down at home. But all were not so close as to keep silent about their crimes and wickedness, that it should not leak out anywhere. So now it came to the knowledge of her brother Leif, who thought it a thoroughly bad business. Then Leif took three men of Freydis’s crew and tortured them till they told the whole of the circumstances, and their stories tallied with one another. ‘I cannot bring myself’, said Leif, ‘to treat Freydis, my sister, as she deserves, but I will predict of them that their stock will never be worth much.’ And the end of it was that no one from that time forward thought anything but ill of them. Now we must go back to the point where Karlsefni made ready his ship and sailed to sea. He made a good passage, and arriving in Norway safe and sound he stayed there for the winter and sold his wares, and both he and his wife were honourably received by the noblest men in Norway. But in the following spring he made his ship ready to sail to Iceland, and when he was quite ready and his ship was waiting for a breeze alongside the quay, a southerner came to him who was of Bremen in Saxony, and bargained with Karlsefni for his ‘húsa-snotra’.[55] ‘I will not sell it’, said he. ‘I will give you half a mark of gold for it’, said the southerner. Karlsefni thought it a good bid, and thereupon they clinched the bargain. The southerner went away with the ‘húsa-snotra’; now Karlsefni did not know what wood it was, but it was ‘mausur’ come from Wineland.