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Chapter 8

From the Icelandic Annals

ANNALES REGII

A.D. 1121. Bishop Eric of Greenland went in search of Vinland.

FROM THE ELDER SKALHOLT ANNALS

A.D. 1347. There came also a ship from Greenland, less in size than small Icelandic trading vessels. It came into the outer Stream-firth. It was without an anchor. There were seventeen men on board, and they had sailed to Markland, but had afterwards been driven hither by storms at sea.