Eiríks saga rauða, part 5.

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So now it's spring again and Þórhallur the hunter is like sod you and goes to the north. Þorfinnur Karlsefni's like "but south coast looks better" and goes there instead.

Þorfinnur Karlsefni: "Anyway this way we can properly figure out wtf this place is like right?"

Þórhallur: "~Mi-mi-mi-miiiiii~"

Þorfinnur Karlsefni: "Right?"

Þórhallur: "~*LALALALAAA*~"

Þórhallur: "~*IIIIII JUUUUST WANTED TO GET DRRRUUUNNNKKKKK*~"

Þórhallur: "Anyway fuk u all I'm on my way."

Except then a wind blows him mildly off course and he ends up in Ireland where the locals capture him and he dies in slavery. Ooops.



10

Meanwhile Þorfinnur Karlsefni, Snorri & co. row south and have a great time fishing.

Local natives: "Whoa lookie them weirdos wtf."

Þorfinnur & friends: "Whoa lookie them weirdos wtf."

It's concluded that neither side wants to kill the other and that the natives have large eyes, wide cheeks and needs to comb their hair pls. Then everyone goes away again and the Norsemen make some huts somewhere by a lake.

11a

Natives return in a huge canoe fleet. Buying and selling wares commences. Natives like red fabric the best, Norsemen like gray furs. Everyone's mostly still happy at this point, esp. the Norsemen cause they kind of cheat the natives with sales a bit.

11b

Ok problems arise. Þorfinnur Karlsefni got a bull which charges at some locals, who understandably are like wft this ferocious beast??!!?? and return a bit later with war canoes.

Welp that went south pretty fast.

11c

The locals manage to spook the Norsemen by throwing something at them? Poles with something blue on top that makes a loud noise when it lands? IDK point is the Norsemen shit themselves well and thoroughly.

Freydís: "Er, why are you losers all running away?"

Freydís: "No seriously hand me an axe and I'll take care of it. It's a promise."

11d

Welp this also goes south and Freydís tries to run away with the rest, except she's heavily preggers so she can't. She comes across Þorbrandur Snorri's son's corpse, takes up his sword, cuts her blouse open and threatens to stab herself in the boob with it. For some reason the locals immediately think they've made a HUGE FUKKEN MISTAKE RUNRUNRUUUUUUUNNNNN and go away.

Ok well the mental image IS pretty frightening I admit.

11e

Þorfinnur Karlsefni: "Er. Well done! Quite good!"

Freydís: "[reply not recorded for one reason or another]"

Meanwhile the locals find another corpse that has an axe. They stick it to a tree and are like, oh it's useful? Then they stick it to a rock and it breaks, and they're like naaah nevermind what a piece of crap.

11f

Þorfinnur Karlsefni: "Ok, so, on positive side there's lots of game and fish around these parts. On negative side we'll prolly all get murdered if we stay much longer. Anyone in favour of moving elsewhere raise your - ok I guess we're all moving then right?"

11g

The crew sets out and murders five random locals along the way because somehow they figure they're outlaws.

Then they find a poop island.

11h

Bjarni and Guðríður settle at a place they call Straumfjörður. About a hundred men stay with them and the rest forty continue on with Þorfinnur Karlsefni, Snorri & co.

Þorfinnur wants to go find Þórhallur but alas weather and sea happens and he ends up elsewhere instead. Practically the story of a viking era settler's life.