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Nansen’s last work “Nord i Taakeheimen, ” in which
he promised, last fall, to give a full account of his
investigations of the Vinland sagas and allied records
and traditions.
Inasmuch as I have been able to get only the first
part of the work, I shall, on this occasion, be obliged
to rely on the newspaper reports of Dr, Nansen’s
lectures on this subject, delivered last fall before
the Christiania Scientific Society. In view of this
situation, this paper can only be a preliminary
report, and I shall be glad of an opportunity at the
next meeting of this society, to deal with the same
subject again.
Professor M, L. Fernald of Harvard University
has recently, in Rhodora, Journal of The New
England Botanical Club, for Feb. 1910, published a paper
on Notes on the Plants of Wineland the Good, which,
in some respects, is as iconoclastic as Dr. Nansen’s
lectures. Dr. Fernald promises a book on the
subject. Before the society meets again, we are likely
to have his whole argument, which thus may be
considered in connection with Nansen’s, if it be
the pleasure of the society.
During the months of October, November and
December, 1910, Dr. Fridtjof Nansen delivered three
lectures on the Vinland sagas, and in a general way
his findings are as follows:
The accounts of Vinland and the Vinland voyages
in Old Norse literature appear comparatively late,
and are not to be found in the oldest sources.
The two Vinland sagas, especially the Saga of
Erik the Red have entirely the character of romances
(romanagtig), One feature after the other is bor-
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