. The true story book . athshe rose, and they could only lay her by holding an axe before herbreast. Thorstein, Erics son, died also, but in the night he aroseagain and said that Christian burial should be given to men in con-secrated ground. For the manner had been to bury the dead intheir farms with a long pole driven through the earth till it touchedthe breast of the corpse. Afterwards the priest came, and poured VINELAND THE GOOD 157 holy water through the hole, and not till then, perhaps long afterthe death, was the funeral service held. After Thorstein rose andspoke, Christian burial was
. The true story book . athshe rose, and they could only lay her by holding an axe before herbreast. Thorstein, Erics son, died also, but in the night he aroseagain and said that Christian burial should be given to men in con-secrated ground. For the manner had been to bury the dead intheir farms with a long pole driven through the earth till it touchedthe breast of the corpse. Afterwards the priest came, and poured VINELAND THE GOOD 157 holy water through the hole, and not till then, perhaps long afterthe death, was the funeral service held. After Thorstein rose andspoke, Christian burial was always used in Greenland. Next yearcame Karlsefni from Iceland, with two ships, and Eric received himkindly, and gave all his crew winter quarters. In summer nothingwould serve Karlsefni but to search again for Vineland the took three ships and one hundred and sixty men, and souththey sailed. They passed Flat Stone Land, where there were whitefoxes, and Bear Island, where they saw a bear, and Forest Land, and. a cape where they found the keel of a wrecked ship, this they namedKeelness. Then they reached the Wonder Strands, long expansesof sandy shore. Now Karlsefni had with him two Scotch or Irishsavages, the swiftest of all runners, whom King Olaf had given toLeif the Lucky, and they were fleeter-footed than deer. They woreonly a plaid and kilt all in one piece, for the rest they were landed them south of Wonder Strands, and bade them runsouth and return on the third day to report about the they returned one carried a bunch of grapes, the other ears 158 HOW LEIF THE LUCKY FOUND of native wheat (maize ?). Then they sailed on, passed an islecovered with birds eggs, and a firth, which they called Streamfirth,from the tide in it. Beyond Streamfirth they landed and established themselvesthere. There were mountains thereabouts. They occupied themselvesexclusively with the exploration of the country. They remainedthere during the winter, and th
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