death.

Other voyages followed. A certain Thorfinn Karlsevne even
tried to found a permanent colony in Vineland. In the
spring of 1007, he took there a hundred and sixty men,
some women, and many cattle. He and his people remained
in Vineland for nearly four years. They traded with the
savages, giving them cloth and trinkets for furs.
Karlsevne's wife gave birth there to a son, who was
christened Snorre, and who was perhaps the first white
child born in America. The Vineland colony seems to have
prospered well enough, but unfortunately quarrels broke
out between the Norsemen and the savages, and so many of
Karlsevne's people were killed that the remainder were
glad to sail back to Greenland.

The Norse chronicles contain a further story of how one
of Karlsevne's companions, Thorward, and his wife Freydis,
who was a daughter of Eric the Red, made a voyage to
Vineland. This expedition ended in tragedy. One night
the Norsemen quarrelled in their winter quarters, there
was a tumult and a massacre. Freydis herself killed five
women with an axe, and the little colony was drenched in
blood. The survivors returned to Greenland, but were
shunned by all from that hour.

After this story we have no detailed accounts of voyages
to Vineland. There are, however, references to it in
Icelandic literature. There does not seem any ground to
believe that the Norsemen succeeded in planting a lasting