Buildings Constructed by the Vinland Voyagers in “The Saga of the Greenlanders”
Chapter 2
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[...] They carried their sleeping-sacks ashore and built booths [búðir]. Later they decided to spend the winter there and built large houses [skálar]. [...]
Chapter 4
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[…] Thorvald and all his companions went ashore.
He then spoke: ‘This is an attractive spot, and here I would like to build my farm [bær]’.
Chapter 7
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Freydis Eiriksdottir […] went to her brother Leif and asked him to give her the houses [hús] he had built in Vinland. He replied as he had before, that he would lend the houses but not give them to anyone. […] The brothers […] removed their things and built themselves a longhouse [skáli] farther from the sea, on the bank of a lake […]