country which, from its aspect, he called Snoe'-land, or the land of snow, but which has been since more appropriately named Iceland (861).
3. About a century after, Torwald, a jarl (petty king) of Norway, who had been exiled from his native land for having slain his enemy, retired to that island with his son Er'-ik, surnamed Randi, or the Red. After the death of his father, Erik was compelled to leave Iceland for the same reason which had banished Torwald from Norway. Seeking a new asylum, he took ship, and directed his course towards the south-west. He found a small island in a strait, and passed the winter there. In the spring he explored the main-land, and, finding it covered with a delightful verdure, he called it Greenland.
4. There was formerly, say the ancient sagas, a man of Norway who navigated from one country to another with his son Bjarne (byār'-ne), and generally spent the winters in Norway. It happened, once on a time, that they were separated from each other, and Bjarne sought his father in Norway, but not finding him there he learnt that he was gone to the newlydiscovered country of Greenland. Bjarne resolved to seek and find out his father wherever he might be, and for this purpose set sail for Greenland, directing himself by the observation of the stars and by what others had told him of the situation of the land.
5. The three first days he was carried to the west, but afterwards the wind, changing, blew with violence from the north, and drove him southwardly for several days. He at last descried a flat country covered with wood, the appearance of which was so different from that of Greenland, as it had been described to him, that he would not go on shore, but made sail to the north-west. In this course he saw an island at a distance, but continued his voyage, and arrived safely in Greenland, where he found his father (1001).
6. In the following summer, Bjarne made another voyage to Norway, where he was hospitably received by Erik, a dis