Leifur
and his mates sailed for two days before they found the third land.
They went on shore on an island, right by the third land. The
island was covered with grass and it had dew on it. They tasted the
dew and it was sweeter than anything they had tasted before. They
went to their ship then and sailed forward to the land. They sailed
up one river and came to a lake and took off there. They built a
house by the lake and stayed there over the winter time. In the river
and the lake there was a lot of a huge salmon. They thought
this land was full of qualities and they thought they wouldn’t even have
to feed their sheep at winters for there was never any frost and the grass
was green the whole year. Leifur split his men into two groups.
One group built a cabin but the other one explored the land.
One
night when everybody was supposed to be back in the house they discovered
than one man was missing. That was Eiríkur the Red's
worker who had always been very kind to Leifur. Leifur took a group
of men to search for him. When they had searched for a while the
man came to them. He told them that he had found vine. This man was
German and recognized the vine. The next day they went exploring
and found a lot of vine and grapes. After this, they gave the land
the name Vineland.
[The picture of the German Tyrkir was drawn by Berglind
Rós.]
It's not certain how far south Leifur got but some scolars think that
he might have reached the neighbourhood of where New York is today.
