The manuscript at present extant is therefore of a later date than that of Hauk’s Book. In admitting this we should, I think, for the reasons given earlier, be chary of attaching too much importance to the fact. Evidence is not wanting that the sources followed compare favourably in age with the rival version. Two such proofs are mentioned by Reeves, though only one of these seems to me of real importance. This is the fact that, unlike the rival version, the Flatey Book refers to Bishop Brand without the distinguishing title ‘the first’, which would in all probability have been added by anyone composing the archetype used by John Thordson at a date subsequent to the second Bishop’s ordination. The other point mentioned by Reeves is the reference to Eric’s landfall in Greenland by its original name of Midjökul, as well as by the later designation of Bláserk, which latter is given alone in Hauk’s version. A reference to the Landnámabók, however, shows that both names are there preserved, and as the part of both versions where the name occurs is obviously founded on Landnáma, the omission of a word of the matter copied by Hauk appears to me devoid of significance. Turning to the contents of the rival productions of Hauk and the Flatey Book, though the two stories are obviously the same, we are at once confronted by certain striking dissimilarities. Bjarni Herjulfson and his adventure are recorded in the Flatey Book, and nowhere else in literature. Leif’s voyage is represented by the same version alone as being deliberately undertaken as a result of Bjarni’s discoveries; elsewhere it is accidental, an episode of a different voyage. A separate voyage of Thorvald Ericson, terminating in his death, is detailed in the same account, whereas in the Saga of Eric the Red no such person is mentioned at all till the episode of his death, and in Hauk’s Book and the companion manuscript he is represented as sailing and meeting his death under the auspices of Karlsefni’s expedition. Finally, after Karlsefni’s return, we have in the Flatey Book alone the story of Freydis’s second visit to the newly discovered country. With these discrepancies, and the attitude of modern criticism towards them, it will be necessary to deal in a separate chapter. II. THE DISCREPANCIES OF THE FLATEY BOOK