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The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503 by Various
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there as long as he lived, and was a man of the greatest prominence.
From him and his wife, Gudrid, a numerous and goodly lineage is
descended. After Karlsefni's death, Gudrid, together with her son,
Snorri, who was born in Wineland, took charge of the farmstead; and when
Snorri was married, Gudrid went abroad, and made a pilgrimage to the
South, after which she returned again to the home of her son, Snorri,
who had caused a church to be built at Glaumbœr. Gudrid then took the
veil and became an anchorite, and lived there the rest of her days.
Snorri had a son, named Thorgeir, who was the father of Ingveld, the
mother of Bishop Brand. Hallfrid was the name of the daughter of Snorri,
Karlsefni's son; she was the mother of Runolf, Bishop Thorlak's father.
Biorn was the name of [another] son of Karlsefni and Gudrid; he was the
father of Thorunn, the mother of Bishop Biorn. Many men are descended
from Karlsefni, and he has been blessed with a numerous and famous
posterity; and of all men Karlsefni has given the most exact accounts of
all these voyages, of which something has now been recounted.

FOOTNOTES:

[45-1] Reeves's translation. In _Origines Islandicae_, Vol. II., p. 598,
this saga is called "The Story of the Wineland Voyages, commonly called
The Story of Eric the Red."

[45-2] The original word for "Brief History" also means "section,"
"episode," "little story," _i.e._, extract or abbreviated account.

[46-1] About 985 (983-986). One vellum of the _Landnama-bok_ (Book of
Settlements) says sixteen, the other fifteen years.

[46-2] Bishop Frederick was from "Saxland" (Saxony). According to the
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