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"There were Northmen, from Norway, who steered westward through mist and storm to an unknown land, where, behind ice and snow, they found plants and green meadows, and bushes with blue-black grapes sloe bushes. The grapes were ripened by the frost just as we are. And they called the land 'wine-land, that is, 'Groenland, or 'Sloeland." "That is quite a romantic story," said the young man.
These he called Vinland or Wine-land, and now a rich man named Karlsefne was to send a colony thither from Greenland, and the young Harald was to go with it and take command of it. Now as Harald was to be presented to the rich Karlsefne, he thought he must be gorgeously arrayed.
While absent, he had subsisted upon wild grapes, from which he told them that in his country they used to make wine; and from this circumstance Lief called the country Winland det gode, or Wine-land the good .
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