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e of the abundance of grapes found there. See Northmen in America. The famous Saga of Eric the Red, which gives the original accounts of the Northmen's voyages to Vinland, exists in two different versions, that known as the Hauks-bok, written by Hauk Erlendsson between 1305 and 1334, and that made about 1387 by the priest Jon Thordharson, contained in the compilation known as the Map of the North Atlantic, by the Icelander Sigurd Stephanius, in 1570. Flateyar-bok, or Flat Island book. Jon used parts of the original saga, and added a considerable amount of material concerning the Vinland voyages derived from other sources, to us unknown. It is this second version which is reproduced, almost in its entirety. The Vinland voyages belong to about the year 1000. These Icelandic chronicles belong therefore to a date three centuries later. They were doubtless based upon earlier writings which had come down from the times of Leif and Thorfinn, subject to the various influences w