Voyages of the Northmen to America Including Extracts From Icelandic Sagas Rela
Voyages of the Northmen to America Including Extracts From Icelandic Sagas Rela
Edmund F Edmund Farwell Slafter
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Next year, when he was ready to fail for Iceland, there came a German from Bremen, who wanted to buy a piece of wood from him : he gave for it half a mark of gold : it was the wood of the Mazer-tree, from Vineland. Karl- fefne went to Iceland, and in the following year, 1015, he bought the Glaumbce eflate, in Skagefiord, in the northland quarter, where he refided during the remainder of his life. His fon, Snorre, who had been born in America, was his fucceffor on this eflate. When the latter ma...rried, his mother made a pilgrimage to Rome, and afterwards returned to her fon's houfe at Glaumboe, where he had in the mean time ordered a church to be built. The mother lived long as a religious reclufe. A numerous and illuflrious race de- fcended from Karlfefne, among whom may be mentioned the learned bifhop Thorlak Runolfson, born in 1085, of Snorre's daughter, Halfrida, to whom we are principally indebted the Evidence. 1 1 1 indebted for the oldeft ecclefiaftical Code of Iceland, pub- lifhed in the year 1 123 ; it is alfo probable that the accounts of the voyages here mentioned were originally compiled by him.
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