Eiríks saga rauða, part 4.

8a

Lots of talks go on at Brattahlíð about Greenland. It's an awesome place with wonderful land for any farmer to grab at!

...right.

Anyway, Snorri, Þorfinnur Karlsefni, Bjarni and Þórhallur are totally wooed by this and not naïve and gullible at all.



8b

There's a Þorvarður who married Eiríkur's daughter Freydís. There's also a Þorvaldur, good luck keeping up with the Þor-somethings. Plus there's Þórhallur the sportsman who's tall, gaunt, good at fighting, randomly in bad tempers.

Anyway this Þórhallur is an asshole and hates people but Eiríkur somehow gets along with him, possibly cause they're both assholes. So all these peeps now leave for Greenland.

8c

They sail to a place and find lots rocks and call the place Rock Land.

Then they find an island with bears on and call it Bear Island.

Next they find a mainland with forest on and it will be called... dun dun duuunnn... FOREST LAND. Amazing!

They also find a keel of a ship stranded somewhere and call that place Keel-something, and then they get bored cause the landscapes are boring and, maybe out of assholery, name that area the Wonder Strands.

8d

So before all this Leifur had been sent to preach Christianity to Greenland accompanied by two Scots, Haki and Hekja, who reportedly run really fast. These two are also on Karlsefni's ship. They put these two on the Wonder Strands and are like, so run to the south edge and back you got three half days. The Scots wear something really not wind-safe as Scots are wont to do.

Scots return. One has some wheat and the other a bunch of grapes. Awesome lands have clearly been found! Scots are allowed back on board.

8e

Next they find a little island with lots of currents around it and call it Current-Island. Come on what were you expecting. They stay near there for a winter, a harsh one, and have a bad time at it. Food's scarce so one day as they're walking about trying to find something they decide to pray God to help them. Alas, God says lol no foods for you.

Þórhallur: *disappears*

The others find him a few days after lying on his back, pinching himself and muttering randomness.

Karlsefni: "Dude what."

Þórhallur: "Er... nothing. What's that I see there a whale drifted ashore?"

Everyone goes happily to cut up the whale cause lotsa meat. Except then Þórhallur's like, lol fools I prayed to Þór and we got the whale immediately, WHERE IS YOUR GOD NOW at which the rest do as starving people with keen logic do, throw out all that whale meat.


Part 5.