opposition which the Haarfagr posterity throughout its whole course
experienced in Norway. Such the cost to them of killing good Jarl
Sigurd, in Greyfell's time! For "curses, like chickens," do sometimes
visibly "come home to feed," as they always, either visibly or else
invisibly, are punctually sure to do.

Hakon Jarl is considerably connected with the _Faroer Saga_ often
mentioned there, and comes out perfectly in character; an altogether
worldly-wise man of the roughest type, not without a turn for
practicality of kindness to those who would really be of use to him.
His tendencies to magic also are not forgotten.

Hakon left two sons, Eric and Svein, often also mentioned in this
Saga. On their father's death they fled to Sweden, to Denmark, and
were busy stirring up troubles in those countries against Olaf
Tryggveson; till at length, by a favorable combination, under their
auspices chiefly, they got his brief and noble reign put an end to.
Nay, furthermore, Jarl Eric left sons, especially an elder son, named
also Eric, who proved a sore affliction, and a continual stone of
stumbling to a new generation of Haarfagrs, and so continued the curse
of Sigurd's murder upon them.

Towards the end of this Hakon's reign it was that the discovery of
America took place (985). Actual discovery, it appears, by Eric the
Red, an Icelander; concerning which there has been abundant
investigation and discussion in our time. _Ginnungagap_ (Roaring
Abyss) is thought to be the mouth of Behring's Straits in Baffin's
Bay; _Big Helloland_, the coast from Cape Walsingham to near
Newfoundland; _Little Helloland_, Newfoundland itself. _Markland_ was
Lower Canada, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia. Southward thence to