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d to this land as with Biarni, that we have not gone upon it. To this country I will now give a name, and call it Helluland. They returned to the ship, put out to sea, and found a second land. They sailed again to the land, and came to anchor, and launched the boat, and went ashore. This was a level wooded land; and there were broad stretches of white sand where they went, and the land was level by the sea. Then said Leif, This land shall have a name after its nature; and we will call it Markland. They returned to the ship forthwith, and sailed away upon the main with north-east winds, and were out two doegr before they sighted land. They sailed toward this land, and came to an island which lay to the northward off the land. There they went ashore and looked about them, the weather being fine, and they observed that there was dew upon the grass, and it so happened that they touched the dew with their hands, and touched their hands to their mouths, and it seemed to them that they