Thorstein Eiriksson

He put the ship in order, procured a crew, and then sailed to Eriksfirth.

the bodies of the dead were now buried at the church, and Gudrid then went home to Leif at Bradehild, while Thorstein the Swarthy made a home for himself on Eriksfirth, and remained there as long as he lived, and was looked upon as a very superior man.

part three of the saga of the greenlanders author unknown part three of the wine-land voyages of thorfinn and his companions that same summer a ship came from norway to greenland the skipper's name was thorfinn karlsefni he was a son of thord horsehead and a grandson of snorri the son of thord of holdi Thorfinn Carlsefni, who was a very wealthy man, passed the winter at Bradehild with Leif Erikson.

He very soon set his heart upon Gudrid, and sought her hand in marriage.

This voyage, as has already been stated, probably took place in the year 1000.

After his return to Greenland, Leif's account of the land which he had discovered seems to have persuaded his brother Torstein and possibly his father to undertake an expedition to the strange country.

This voyage, which was not destined to meet with a successful issue, may well have fallen in the year following Leif's return, and therefore, it may be conjectured, in the year 1001.

About this time there had arrived in Greenland an Icelander of considerable prominence, an old friend of Eric's named Torbjorn Vifilsen, who had brought with him his daughter Gudrid, or as she is also called, Turid.

He must have arrived before Torstein Eric's home during Leif's absence from Greenland, and if this be true, it follows that Torbjorn and Gudrid must have been converted to Christianity before its acceptance in Iceland as the legalized religion of the land.

For very soon after their arrival in Greenland, Gudrid alludes to the fact of her being a Christian, and from the language of the saga, there can be no question that her father had likewise embraced the new faith.

The presence of these companions in the faith may have materially aided Leif in the work of proselytism in which he engaged upon his return to Greenland.

We are told that Torbjorn did not arrive at Brattahlid until the second year after his departure from Iceland.

The remaining story of the discoveries of the Northmen must be told in a few words.

The next to set sail for that far-off land was Thorstein, the third son of Erik the Red.

He failed to get there, however, but made land on the east coast of Greenland, where he died, while his wife Gudrid returned home.

Much was this woman noted for her beauty, and as much for her wisdom and prudence, so the sagas tell us.

This Tori is mentioned nowhere save in the Flateybook.

His wife was so famous a personage in Icelandic annals that it seems passing strange this spouse should have been so completely ignored by other Icelandic chronicles, which have not failed to record Gudrid's marriage to Thorstein Erikson and subsequently to Thorfinn Karlsefni.

Indeed, according to the biography of this most noble lady, as written in the saga of Eric the Red, there is no place for Tori, for Gudrid is said to have come to Greenland in much less romantic fashion, namely as an unmarried woman, in the same ship with and under the protection of her father Thorbjorn.

Another chronological error occurs in that paragraph of the short story of Eric the Red, wherein it is stated that after sixteen winters had lapsed from the time when Eric the Red went to colonize Greenland, Leif, Eric's son, sailed out from Greenland to Norway.

I will come after you on the morrow with a sumpter horse, for I am not lacking in means wherewith to provide for you both, although it will be lonely living with me, since there are but two of us, my wife and myself, for I, forsooth, am a very hard man to get on with.

Moreover, my faith is not the same as yours, albeit methinks that that is the better to which you hold.

He returned for them on the morrow with the beast, and they took up their home with Thorstein the Swarthy, and were well treated by him.

Gudrid was a woman of fine presence, and a clever woman, and very happy in adapting herself to strangers.

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cry uttered above them and the words of the cry were these awake torvald thou and all thy company if thou would save thy life and board thy ship with all thy men and sail with all speed from the land a countless number of skin canoes then advanced toward them from the inner part of the firth whereupon torvald exclaimed we must put out the war boards on both sides of the ship and defend ourselves to the best of our ability but offer little attack this they did and the skrellings after they had shot at them for a time fled precipitately each as best he could torvald then inquired of his men whether any of them had been wounded and they informed him that no one of them had received a wound i have been wounded in my armpit says he an arrow flew in between the gunwale and the shield below my arm here is the shaft and it will bring me to my end i counsel you now to retrace your way with the utmost speed but me ye shall convey to that headland which seemed to me to offer so pleasant a dwelling-place thus it may be fulfilled that the truth sprang to my lips when i expressed the wish to abide there for a time ye shall bury me there and place a cross at my head and another at my feet and call it crossness for ever after at that time christianity had obtained in greenland eric the red died however before the introduction of christianity torvald died and when they had carried out his injunctions they took their departure and rejoined their companions and they told each other of the experiences which had befallen them they remained there during the winter and gathered grapes and wood with which to freight the ship in the following spring they returned to greenland and arrived with their ship in eric's firth where they were able to recount great tidings to leif torstein ericsson dies in the western settlement in the meantime it had come to pass in greenland that torstein of eric's firth had married and taken to wife goodrid thorbjorn's daughter she who had been the spouse of tori eastman as has been already related now torstein ericsson being minded to make the voyage to wineland after the body of his brother torvald equipped the same ship and selected a crew of twenty-five men of good size and strength and taking with him his wife goodrid when all was in readiness they sailed out into the open ocean and out of sight of land they were driven hither and thither over the sea all that summer and lost all reckoning and at the end of the first week of winter they made the land at lisufirth in greenland in the western settlement torstein set out in search of quarters for his crew and succeeded in procuring homes for all of his shipmates but he and his wife were unprovided for and remained together upon the ship for two or more days at this time christianity was still in its infancy in greenland it befell early one morning that men came to their tent and the leader inquired who the people were within the tent Thorstein replies, We are twain, says he.

But who is it who asks? My name is Thorstein, and I am known as Thorstein the Swarthy, and my errand hither is to offer you two, husband and wife, a home with me.

Thorstein replied that he would consult with his wife, and she bidding him decide, he accepted the invitation.

I will come after you on the morrow with a sumpter horse, for I am not lacking in means wherewith to provide for you both, although it will be lonely living with me, since there are but two of us, my wife and myself, for I, forsooth, am a very hard man to get on with.

Moreover, my faith is not the same as yours, albeit methinks that that is the better to which you hold.

He returned for them on the morrow with the beast, and they took up their home with Thorstein the Swarthy, and were well treated by him.

Gudrid was a woman of fine presence, and a clever woman, and very happy in adapting herself to strangers.

He put the ship in order, procured a crew, and then sailed to Eriksfirth.

the bodies of the dead were now buried at the church, and Gudrid then went home to Leif at Bradehild, while Thorstein the Swarthy made a home for himself on Eriksfirth, and remained there as long as he lived, and was looked upon as a very superior man.

part three of the saga of the greenlanders author unknown part three of the wine-land voyages of thorfinn and his companions that same summer a ship came from norway to greenland the skipper's name was thorfinn karlsefni he was a son of thord horsehead and a grandson of snorri the son of thord of holdi thorfinn karlsefni who was a very wealthy man passed the winter at braderhild with leif ericsson he very soon set his heart upon gudrid and sought her hand in marriage she referred him to leif for her answer and was subsequently betrothed to him and their marriage was celebrated that same winter a renewed discussion arose concerning a wineland voyage and the folk urged karlsefni to make the venture gudrid joining with the others He determined to undertake the voyage, and assembled a company of sixty men and five women, and entered into an agreement with his shipmates that they should each share equally in all the spoils of the enterprise.

They took with them all kinds of cattle, as it was their intention to settle the country if they could.