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the geographical conditions in America fitted the saga
description very well, and then proffered the wise
observation that a kind of grape vine grows in Nova
Scotia, and that sweet grapes are so to be found in
Florida.
At the nest meeting Professor Moltke Moe
delivered the main address, in support of Nansen,
relying for his arguments on his profound study of
folklore and popular tradition, without discussing
matters of astronomical, botanical, zoological, or
geographical nature. He put the problem as follows:
Old Norse literature had a series of accounts of
newly discovered lands southwest of Greenland,
assigned to definite periods and ascribed to definite
individuals. They contain features of considerable
historical interest, but they are in part a strange
conglomeration of motives, traits, and concepts from
a very much older European traditional literature,
especially highly developed among the Irish. Only
here and there are there features which are not
found elsewhere. Vinland the Good, in Professor
Moe’s opinion, was the expression of an
amalgamation of concepts concerning a real country and native
and foreign realms of tradition.
In reply to a second address by Professor Moe,
Professor Yngvar Nielson maintained that the oldest
Icelandic sources contained nothing of a folkloristic
east, which was a late accretion, and that Processor
Moe’s learned disquisition did not, apply to the case
in hand.
Professor Bugge presented various arguments as a
basis of his faith in Vinland and the natives, which
he believed were Eskimos. On account of their
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