a new land which he called Greenland, because, as he said, people would be
attracted thither if it had a good name. Then he established a colony
there, and then Leif the Lucky, as he was called, sailed still farther,
and came to the Wonderstrand, or Magic Shores. These he called Vinland or
Wine-land, and now a rich man named Karlsefne was to send a colony thither
from Greenland, and the young Harald was to go with it and take command of
it.

Now as Harald was to be presented to the rich Karlsefne, he thought he
must be gorgeously arrayed. So he wore a helmet on his head, a red shield
richly inlaid with gold and iron, and a sharp sword with an ivory handle
wound with golden thread. He had also a short spear, and wore over his
coat a red silk short cloak on which was embroidered, both before and
behind, a yellow lion. We may well believe that the sixty men and five
women who composed the expedition were ready to look on him with
admiration, especially as one of the women was his own sister, Freydis,
now left to his peculiar care, since Erik the Red had died. The sturdy old
hero had died still a heathen, and it was only just after his death that
Christianity was introduced into Greenland, and those numerous churches
were built there whose ruins yet remain, even in regions from which all
population has gone.

So the party of colonists sailed for Vinland, and Freydis, with the four
older women, came in Harald's boat, and Freydis took easily the lead among
them for strength, though not always, it must be admitted, for amiability.

The boats of the expedition having left Greenland soon after the year
1000, coasted the shore as far as they could, rarely venturing into open
sea. At last, amidst fog and chilly weather, they made land at a point
where a river ran through a lake into the sea, and they could not enter