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west coast of Greenland. The furthest bound of this
migration was reached when Icelanders and Greenlanders
sailed down the polar current to Stoneland
and Wineland, along the desert, rockspread shores of
Labrador, to the fishing-grounds and forest-clad
havens of that vast estuary we call after St.
Lawrence.
To gather some explanation of the causes that
made possible such astonishing enterprise as this, we
must turn back to Norway. Aloof from the secular
struggles which created and welded the tribal confederacies of the Baltic shores,–Danes, Swedes,
Wandals, Burgunds, Bards, and Goths,–there were
growing up along the coast and in the upland dales
of the North way, in primitive isolated tribes,
Throwends, Reams, Aens, Neams, Haurds, Rugians,
Granes, Heins, Thules, and the like, each under their
own rulers, a hardy and vigorous race, woodmen,
shepherds, farmers, fishers, who had, by the end of
the eighth century, colonised the long and narrow
winding strip of soil between sea and glacier which
was called Haloga-land; developed great and lucrative
fisheries, and the hunting of whales, seal, and walruses;
opened out a fur trade with the Finns, and kept up
a half merchant, half piratical intercourse with the
Beormas of the White Sea round the cold North
Cape.
How admirable a training-ground nature had granted
these Northmen is clear when one looks at the map.
The west coast, that over against the British Islands
from Cape Start to the Naze, the Sailor’s Naze,
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