ord a way. It seems that
this Thorbiorn comes of a good family that has been rich and great in
Iceland for years. And Thorbiorn himself was rich when our father knew
him, and was much honored by all men. But ill luck came, and he grew
poor. This hurt his pride. 'I will not stay in Iceland and be a beggar,'
he said to himself. 'I will not have men look at me and say, "He is not
what his father was." I will go to my friend Eric the Red in
Greenland.'

"Then he got ready a great feast and invited all his friends. It was
such a feast as had not been in Iceland for years. Thorbiorn spent on it
all the wealth that he had left. For he said to himself, 'I will not
leave in shame. Men shall remember my last feast.' After that he set out
and came to Greenland.

"Is not Gudrid beautiful? And she is wise. I mean to marry her, if her
father will permit it."

Now Leif settled down in Greenland and became a great man there. He was
so busy and he grew so rich that he did not think of going to Wineland
again. But people could not forget his story. Many nights as men sat
about the long fires they talked of that wonderful land and wished to
see it.

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Wineland the Good

On an autumn, a year or two after Leif came home, Eric and his men saw
two large ships come to land not far down the shore from the house.

"They look like trading ships," Eric said. "Let us go down to see them."

"I will go, too," Gudrid said. "Perhaps they will have rich cloth and
jewelry. It is long since I had my eyes on a new dress."

So they all went down and found two large trading ships lying in the
water. A great many men were on the shore making a fire.

"Welcome to Greenland!" called Eric. "What are your names and your
country?"

Then a fine, big man walked out from among the men and went up to Eric.

"I am Thorfinn," he said, "a trader. I sailed this summer from Iceland
with forty men and a shipload of goods. On the sea I met this other
ship from Iceland. The master is Biarni. Come and look at my goods."

So he rowed Eric and Gudrid out and they went aboard his boat. Thorfinn
opened his chests and showed Eric gleaming swords and bracelets and axes
and farm tools. But before Gudrid he spread beautiful cloth and gold
embroidery and golden necklaces. As they looked, he told of doings in
Iceland and asked of Greenland.

"We never see such things as these in this bare land," Gudrid said, as
she smoothed a beaut