As Dr. Storm has pointed out in the preface to his excellent edition of the Saga of Eric the Red, the Flatey narrative contains an extraordinary number of direct voyages between Greenland and Norway. Apart from Bjarni Herjulfson, there is first Karlsefni’s arrival, which is here stated to be from Norway; there is his return, direct to Norway, where he sells his ‘húsa-snotra’ to a German from Bremen; and finally there is the arrival of the brothers, Helgi and Finnbogi, from Norway, in the story of Freydis’s expedition. Now Dr. Storm sees in all this merely an additional count in his indictment against the Flatey Book. This talk of direct voyages between Greenland and Norway smacks of the days of the royal monopoly; Germans from Bremen suggest a date subsequent to the establishment of the Hanseatic League in Bergen. I think these anachronisms are established with some degree of certainty; but it also occurs to me that the mistake is more suggestive of a Greenland than an Icelandic source. It is difficult to suppose that the infrequent ships which sailed to Greenland under the royal monopoly in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries did not in fact call at Iceland, which lay directly in their track. If they did so, they would not suggest to an Icelander the idea of direct voyages between Norway and Greenland; if they did not, they would not be present to the Icelandic mind at all. To a Greenlander of about the period of the Flatey Book’s composition, or even earlier, any ship which arrived off Greenland would, on the other hand, be ‘a ship from Norway’; i.e. a ship bringing his necessary supplies from the only available source. And, as the original sagas handed down to him would hardly be concerned very much with the origin or destination of the ships which came to Greenland, the error of introducing Norway might easily creep in.