Bjarne Herjúlfsson ca. 985CE - Dark Forest

In 985CE a Norwegian of name Bjarne

Herjulfsson son’s son of Bard Herjulfsson

traveled bravely to Greenland from Iceland

It was custom that Bjarne spend alternate

winters in each land with his father.

When arriving in Iceland summer 985

he received word that his father had gone to

west to Greenland…

Bjarne feels uneasy that neither he nor his

crew had ever charted these waters.

After three days and nights,

a fierce north Atlantic storm

blows his ship off course in these waters.

Bjarne and his crew attempted to regain

their course and after several days they

encountered a heavily wooded land.

Knowing this is not Greenland,

he decides it is best not to go ashore,

and so they sail away…

And so they sail away

onto Greenland they find

the place that they had long sought

with memories of a land not forgot

And into the bay he breathes easily

as his journey comes to an end

And when Bjarne Herjulfsson back in

Iceland sells his ship to Lief Eriksson

Lief returns onward to this new land

Fifteen years since the sighting of the

last man.

A colony on the eastern

shores and a memory of a lost long

course

Hail, Helluland, Markland, Vinland!