[30] The statement, found in several places, that he discovered Vinland while on his way to Greenland, is incorrect. The full account of his voyages shows that his Vinland voyage was an entirely separate thing. [31] The author designs shortly to give some full account of the early Christianity on the Western Continent in a separate work, now well advanced towards completion. It will include both the _Pre_ and _Post_-Columbian eras. [32] Gissur the White and Hialte, went on the same errand to Iceland in the year 1000, when the new religion was formally adopted at the public Thnig. [33] It will be seen hereafter that he went and established himself in Vinland. [34] See _Memoires des Antiquaires du Nord_, p. 383. [35] The location of Gardar is now uncertain. At one time it was supposed to have been situated on the eastern coast; but since it became so clear that the east coast was never inhabited, that view has been abandoned, though the name appears in old maps. [36] See Crantz's _Greenland_, vol. I, p. 252. [37] These inscriptions are all in fair runic letters, about which there can be no mistake, and are totally unlike the imaginary runes, among which we may finally feel obliged to class those of the Dighton rock. [38] See Egede's _Greenland_, p. xxv; Crantz's _Greenland_, vol. I, pp. 247-8; Purchas, _His Pilgrimes_, vol. III, p. 518; _Antiquitates Americanæ_, p. 300. [39] _Antiquitates Americanæ_, p. xxxix. [40] For the account of the manuscripts upon which our knowledge of Greenland is founded, see _Antiquitates Americanæ_, p. 255. [41] In that year parties are known to have contracted marriage at Gardar, from whom Finn Magnussen and other distinguished men owe their descent. [42] Egede's _Greenland_, p. xlvii. [43] Ibid., xlviii. [44] Crantz's _Greenland_, vol. I, p. 264. [45] Crantz's _Greenland_, p. 274. [46] Ibid., p. 279. [47] Hans Egede was a clergyman in priest's orders, and minister of the congregation at Vogen in the northern part of Norway, where he was highly esteemed and beloved. He spent fifteen years as a missionary in Greenland, and died at Copenhagen, 1758. [48] The motto on the sword of Roger Guiscard was: "_Appulus et Calaber Siculus mihi Servit et Afer._" [49] See Laing's _Heimskringla_, vol. II, p. 450. This refers to his swimming match with Kiarten the Icelander, in which the king was beaten. [50] See Saga of Saint (not king) Olaf. [51] _Des Antiquaires du Nord_, 1859. [52] Ledehammer. The point of land near the house of Lede, just below Drontheim.