Unnamed Area North of Vinland in “The Saga of the Greenlanders”
[Thorvald’s expedition]
Chapter 4
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[...] They then left [after Kjalarnes] to sail to the east of the country and entered the mouths of the next fjords until they reached a cape stretching out seawards. It was covered with forest. After they secured their ship in a sheltered cove and put out gangways to the land, Thorvald and all his companions went ashore.
He then spoke: 'This is an attractive spot, and here I would like to build my farm.'
Source: Keneva Kunz, trans., "[Unnamed Area North of Vinland in] The Saga of the Greenlanders" in The Sagas of Icelanders: A Selection, preface by Jane Smiley, introduction by Robert Kellogg, (New York, London, Victoria (Australia), Toronto, Auckland: The Penguin Group, 2000), 636-652. Notes: Translations first published in "The Complete Sagas of Icelanders," volumes I-V (forty-nine tales), Leifur Eiriksson Publishing, Ltd., Iceland, 1997.