AMREICAN HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS
THE VOYAGES TO VINLAND
(c. 1000)
［The following account of the discovery of North America by Leif Ericsson is contained in the “Saga of Eric the Red”; and the present translation is that made by A. M. Reeves from the version of the Saga in the Flateyar-bók, compiled by Jon Thórdharson about 1387. The part of the coast where Leif landed is much in dispute, the most recent investigations tending to the southern part of the coast of Labrador, though many scholars believe Vinland to have been on the New England shore.］