Our country in story . athered pilot time the bird did not return; so the sea king rowedwith all speed in his power in the direction of its flight,and soon came upon a large island all covered with ice andsnow, excepting one spot on the low, southwestern coastwhich was overgrown with green grass and shrubs. Thesea king swung his dragon around what is now Cape Fare-well and leaped upon the largest island on the globe. Eric the Red named this gray and white country ofrocks and ice and polar bears Greenland, thinking thathis friends would be more anxious to come and settle inthis new la
Our country in story . athered pilot time the bird did not return; so the sea king rowedwith all speed in his power in the direction of its flight,and soon came upon a large island all covered with ice andsnow, excepting one spot on the low, southwestern coastwhich was overgrown with green grass and shrubs. Thesea king swung his dragon around what is now Cape Fare-well and leaped upon the largest island on the globe. Eric the Red named this gray and white country ofrocks and ice and polar bears Greenland, thinking thathis friends would be more anxious to come and settle inthis new land if he gave it this inviting name. Afterwhihng away three years on the coast of Greenland, Ericventured back to Iceland. He soon returned with a num-ber of friends and kinsmen. Other Icelanders followed,and by and by a thrifty colony grew up on the south-western coast of Greenland. A certain young Icelander named Biarni wished to joinhis father in Greenland. On his way thither, he was A PATHWAY ACROSS THE ATLANTIC 15. RUINS OF THE CATHEDRAL OF GARDA,GREENLAND driven out of his course by a storm. When the stormwas over, he caught sight of land to the land being so far out of his way, he paid but littleattention to it, and steered northward, finally reachingGreenland. He later returned to Norway, and the newsof his having seen land to the south greatly interestedErics son, named Leif. Leifs home was in Iceland, buthe happened to be in Norway at the court of King Olafat the time. The youngNorthman at once re-solved to see the newland. So he bought Biar-nis ship and with somethirty hardy sailors pre-pared for his long oceanvoyage. Meanwhile the mis-sionaries of the Catholic Church had been preaching theGospel throughout the land of Norway. King Olaf hadbecome a zealous Catholic. Leif Ericson, too, with hiswhole crew of sailors, had become a convert, and his chiefmotive in sailing westward was to take missionaries toGreenland. Let us picture to ourselves the noble c
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