thus descended from Thorfinn
Karlsefni.]

[Footnote 189: Compare the alarm of the Wampanoag Indians in
1603 at the sight of Martin Pring's mastiff. Winsor, _Narr. and
Crit. Hist._, iii. 174.]

[Footnote 190: The fate of Bjarni was pathetic and noble. It
was decided that as many as possible should save themselves in
the stern boat. "Then Bjarni ordered that the men should go in
the boat by lot, and not according to rank. As it would not
hold all, they accepted the saying, and when the lots were
drawn, the men went out of the ship into the boat. The lot was
that Bjarni should go down from the ship to the boat with one
half of the men. Then those to whom the lot fell went down from
the ship to the boat. When they had come into the boat, a young
Icelander, who was the companion of Bjarni, said: 'Now thus do
you intend to leave me, Bjarni?' Bjarni replied, 'That now
seems necessary.' He replied with these words: 'Thou art not
true to the promise made when I left my father's house in
Iceland.' Bjarni replied: 'In this thing I do not see any other
way'; continuing, 'What course can you suggest?' He said: 'I
see this, that we change places and thou come up here and I go
down there.' Bjarni replied: 'Let it be so, since I see that
you are so anxious to live, and are frightened by the prospect
of death.' Then they changed places, and he descended into the
boat with the men, and Bjarni went up into the ship. It is
related that Bjarni and the sailors with him in the ship
perished in the worm sea. Those who went in the boat went on
their course until they came to land, where they told all these
things." De Costa's version from _Saga Thorfinns Karlsefnis_,
Rafn, pp. 184-186.]

[Sidenote: Freydis, and her evil deeds in Vinland, 1011-12.]

Among Karlsefni's companions on this memorable expedition was one
Thorvard, with his wife Freydis, a natural daughter of Eric the Red.
About the time of their return to Greenland in the summer of 1010, a
ship arrived from Norway, commanded by two brothers, Helgi and Finnbogi.
During the winter a new expedition was planned, and in the summer of
1011 two ships set sail for Vinland, one with Freydis, Thorvard, and a
crew of 30 men, the other