143
Leif and His New Land 161
Wineland the Good 174

_Descriptive Notes_ 194
_Suggestions to Teachers_ 200
_A Reading List_ 204
_A Pronouncing Index_ 207

A List of the Illustrations

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_A map showing the journeys of the Vikings_ Frontispiece

"_I own this baby for my son. He shall be called Harald_" 17

"_He threw back his cape and drew a little dagger from his
belt_" 22

"_I struck my shield against the door so that it made a
great clanging_" 31

"_Then he turned to the shore and sang out loudly_" 45

"_He drove it into the wolf's neck_" 51

"_I vow that I will grind my father's foes under my heel_" 59

"_King Haki fell dead under 'Foes'-fear'_" 68

"_I will not be his wife unless he puts all of Norway
under him for my sake_" 73

"_Then he leaped into King Arnvid's boat_" 87

"_I, Harald, King of Norway, take you, Gyda, for my wife_" 91

"_In Norway they left burning houses and weeping women_" 97

"_Then he saw that Leif's ship was being driven afar off_" 125

"_Those Icelanders clapped them on the shoulders_" 137

"_He looked straight ahead of him and scowled_" 145

"_More than half the men in the hall jumped to their feet_" 147

"_It is a bigger boat than I ever saw before_" 153

"_He pointed to the woods and laughed and rolled his eyes_" 167

"_The chief held them out to Thorfinn and hugged the cloak
to him_" 187

What _the_ Sagas Were

Iceland is a little country far north in the cold sea. Men found it and
went there to live more than a thousand years ago. During the warm
season they used to fish and make fish-oil and hunt sea-birds and gather
feathers and tend their sheep and make hay. But the winters were long
and dark and cold. Men and women and children stayed in the house and
carded and spun and wove and knit. A w