The oldest extant version of this passage, that occurring in the Friis codex of the Book of the Kings of Norway, will be found included in the Appendix to our translation (p. 74). Another example, from the great Olaf Tryggvason Saga, may be usefully given here, for purposes of comparison: ‘That same spring when Olaf the King sent Gizur and Hjalti to Iceland, as has already been written, he also sent Leif Ericson to Greenland, to preach Christianity there. The King got him a priest and other holy men, to baptize the people there and teach them the right faith. Leif went that summer to Greenland. He took at sea a ship’s crew, who were then in misfortune, and lay on a completely broken wreck of a ship, and on that voyage he found Wineland the Good, and came at the end of that summer to Greenland, and went home to Brattahlid to his father Eric. Men called him afterwards Leif the Lucky. But Eric his father said that the account was balanced, since Leif had preserved and given life to the men of the ship’s crew, and had brought the hypocrite to Greenland, so he called the priest.’ A similar passage in the Heimskringla may also be compared. Besides these we have also a shorter passage in the Kristni Saga, which has been preserved for us in Hauk’s Book. This last, translated in the same baldly literal manner, may also be found in the Appendix of Supplementary Passages, p. 75. Now the first thing noticeable about all these passages is that they occur in exactly the same context, the history of King Olaf Tryggvason’s missionary enterprises. We have further the authority of Vigfusson for saying that both the Kristni Saga and the Book of Kings, though in their present shape they have passed through the hands of various editors, were in their original form products of the pen of Ari the Learned. We have therefore in all these cases one author, one context, and substantially one phraseology.