...ca discovered by the Scandinavian navigator, because of the abundance of grapes found there. See Northmen in America. The famous , which gives the original accounts of the Northmen's voyages to Vinland , exists in two different versions, that known as the , written by Hauk Erlendsson between 1305 and 1334, and that made about 1387 by the priest Jon Thordharson, contained in the compilation known as ...