published by Messrs. G.P. Putnam's Sons; to Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin and
Company for permission to use, out of the third volume of Winsor's
_Narrative and Critical History of America_, the late Dr. Charles Deane's
translation, revised by Professor Bennet H. Nash, of the second letter of
Raimondo de Soncino respecting John Cabot's expedition; and to George
Philip and Son, Limited, of London, for permission to use the map in
Markham's _Life of Christopher Columbus_ as the basis for the map in the
present volume, showing the routes of Columbus's four voyages.




CONTENTS

ORIGINAL NARRATIVES OF THE VOYAGES OF THE NORTHMEN
EDITED BY PROFESSOR JULIUS E. OLSON

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INTRODUCTION 3

THE SAGA OF ERIC THE RED 14
The Ancestry of Gudrid 14
The Colonization of Greenland 15
Gudrid's Father emigrates to Greenland 20
The Sibyl and the Famine in Greenland 21
Leif the Lucky and the Discovery of Vinland 23
Thorstein's Attempt to find Vinland 26
The Marriage of Gudrid to Thorstein 27
The Ancestry of Thorfinn Karlsefni; his Marriage with Gudrid 30
Karlsefni's Voyage to Vinland 31