Once there was a woman named Unnur djúpúðga. She settled in the district called Dalir, Iceland. Eric the Red,  who had lived in Norway, moved with his father to Iceland. He married Thjodhildur and they settled down at  Eiríksstadir in Haukadal, in the district of Dalir.   A little later he was found guilty of a very bad behaviour and was driven away from Haukadalur. Eric then settled  on an island named Öxney, in Breiðafjörður.   He lent two ornamental  pieces of wood (“setstokkar”)  to his friend, Þorgestur.  (Setstokkar were  used  to decorate chairs.) When Þorgestur didn´t return the ornamental wood poles  Eric went and collected  them himself.  By doing this Eric insulted Þorgestur  so Þorgestur had Eric followed and in a fight Eric killed Þorgestur's  two sons. Eric was found guilty for that and was judged to become an exile from Iceland. He moved to Greenland and there he built a farm  named Brattahlíð. [The ornamental piece of jewellary was drawn by Karín Rut.]

A man named Þorbjörn Vífilsson had a daughter named Guðríður. Þorbjörn moved from Iceland because he had  no money to live there. He planned to meet Eric the red in Greenland.  Along with Þorbjörn went about 30 people. The trip to Greenland was hard and many people died of sickness. The people who lived reached land at  Herjólfsnes. Then there were difficult times in Greenland and Þorbjörg the fortuneteller was asked to tell something about the future. Þorbjörn and his family moved in with Eric the red in Brattahlíð. Eric and his wife had two sons named Þorsteinn and Leifur. 

Leifur lived in Norway with King Ólafur Tryggvason but he was in a “vacation” in Greenland. On his way back to Norway he stopped in the Herbrides Isles and got to know a woman, named Þórgunna, quite well. Þórgunna told him  that she was pregnant  but Leifur still went  to Norway without her. King Ólafur sent Leifur to Greenland as a Christian missionary  but Leifur lost his way and he found a new land. On his way to Greenland  he also rescuee a few people from  a shipwreck. Finally Leifur got  to Greenland and successfully preached the gospel. Because of all this  Leifur was called Leifur the Lucky. Leifur's  mother, Þjóðhildur, became Christian but not Leifur's  father so she didn't  want to share a bed  with Eric forever after this. [Gerdur made the picture of Eric the Red and his wife Þjóðhildur.]
 

Þorsteinn son of Eric the Red  planned to sail with his father to the land which Leifur found. Eric  hurt himself but he still went along with Þorsteinn. They went  far and wide but ended  again on the shore of Greenland. Þorsteinn Eiríksson married Guðríður Þorbjarnardóttir and they lived for a while with Þorsteinn and Sigríður on a farm  in Vestri byggð. Severe disease breaks out  and much of the people on the farm die, also Þorsteinn Eiríksson. Most of the dead people turn into ghosts.  Þorsteinn Eiríksson wakes up after his death and predicts for Guðríður and asks for to be buried in consectrate ground and then lies down dead again. 

Guðríður went  to Þorsteinn's father,  Eric the Red. Þorfinnur karlsefni came to Greenland from Iceland and stayed with Eric in Brattahlíð.  Þorfinnur karlsefni married  Guðríður and decided to go to Vinland, the land Leifur discovered. With Karlsefni went  altogether 160 people and they found  Helluland, Markland and Vínland. They sent Scotish slaves on shore.  They ran around the land to explore and found both grapes and wheat. 

Þórhallur the hunter used  witchcraft to kill a whale so they can eat something, but everybody got ill of eating the whale. When they got tired of being at Leifur's camp in  Vinland they decided to go somewhere else. Þórhallur went  north with 8 men but  they drifted to Ireland and  he died there. Karlsefni on the other hand went  south with all the others and put up a camp near a lake called Hóp. 

One morning they saw a group of Indians sailing and looking curious at them, but they didn´t do any harm to the white people. 

Next spring they returned.  The Icelanders made deals with the Indians, but Karlsefni forbid his men to give them weapons. [Sævar Birgir drew the picture.]
 
 
 

Three weeks later they came back and now they were hostile  to  the Vikings. The Indians used  witchcraft and it was difficult for the Vikings to fight back. But Freydís Eirksdóttir scared them away by putting a sword on her naked breasts. The Vikings then went searching  for a new land because they didn´t want to fight the Indians again. On their way they bumped into a one legged man who  killed  Þorvaldur Eiríksson and ran into the woods. The Vikings settled  in Straumfjörður during  wintertime. The first year in Vínland Guðríður and Þorfinnur karlsefni had a son whom  they called Snorri. Three years later they went from Vínland  to Greenland. [? drew the picture.]

After two years stay in Greenland they moved on Skagafjörður, in Iceland. From Snorri Þorfinnsson descended   many good men like Bishop Þorlákur, Bishop Bjarni  and bishop Brandur. 

Katrín, Ingólfur Haukur and  Huldís