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 352 CimONICLE OF THE APPENDIX, shot at them for a while, and then made off as fast as they could wherever they saw the way was open to fly. Then Thorvald asked if any one was wounded, and they said no- body was hurt. He said, " I have got a wound under the arm. An arrow flew between the gunwale and the shield under my arm : here is the arrow, and it will be my death- wound. Now I advise you to make ready with all speed to return ; but ye shall carry me up to the point which I thought would be so convenient for a dwelling. It may be that it was true what I said, that here I would dwell for a while. Ye shall bury me there, and place a cross at my head and another at my feet, and call the place Crossness."* Christianity had been established in Greenland at this time; but Eric Red was dead before Christianity was introduced. Now Thorvald died, and they did every thing as he had ordered. Then they went away in search of their fellow-travellers ; and they related to each other all the news. They remained in their dwelling all winter, and gathered vines and grapes, and put them on board their ships. Towards spring they prepared to return to Greenland, where they arrived with their vessel, and landed at Ericsfiord, bringing heavy tidings to Leif. In the meantime it had happened in Greenland that Thorstein of Ericsfiord had married, and taken to wife Gudrid, the daughter of Thorbiorn, who had been married, as before related, to Thorer the Northman. Thorstein Erics- son bethought him now that he would go to Vinland for his brother Thorvald's body. He rigged out the same vessel, and chose an able and stout crew. He had with him twenty-five men, and his wife Gudrid ; and as soon as they were ready he put to sea, and they lost sight of land. They drove about on the ocean the whole summer, without knowing where they w^ere ; and in the first Aveek of winter t they landed at Lysefiord in Greenland, in the western settlement. Thorstein looked for lodgings for his men, and got his whole ship's crew accommodated, but not himself and his wife ; so that for some nights they had to sleep on board. At that time Christianity was but young in Greenland. One day, early in the morning, some men came truth in this saga to be Gurnet Point. t The Icelanders reckoned winter from the first Saturday after the 20th of October. Chapter V. Of Thors- tein Erics- son, Leif's brother, and his voyage to Vinland.
 * Crossness is supposed by the antiquaries who find nothing but