Page:Legendaryislands00babcuoft.djvu/137

INTERCOURSE WITH GREENLAND 119 to a long protuberance apparently meant for this part of Cape Breton Island, containing the counties of Victoria and Inverness, and the much earlier statement in Arna-Magnaean Manuscript 194 concerning the sea running in between Markland and Wine- land seems to mark all south of Cabot Strait as belonging in some sense to the latter region. No doubt the name Markland may sometimes have been used with vagueness of limitation; but on the whole it seems most likely that Newfoundland was Markland almost exclusively. It seems practically certain, at the least, that the characteristics first noted in Newfoundland supplied the earlier regional name. In many of the discussions of this exploring saga there has been too great a tendency to localize the territorial names, as though Wineland for example must denote a small area or short stretch of coast. Professor Hovgaard has even suggested that there may have been two Winelands Leif's Wineland being much farther south than Karlsefni's, the name in each case standing for some one site or place and the territory immediately about it. This does not accord well with one of the notes on the Stefansson map, which gives Wineland an extension as far as a fiord dividing it from "the America of the Spaniard." That may be read as meaning Chesapeake Bay and must at any rate be taken to suggest great extension for this region, since the Promontorium Vinlandiae, as already stated, obviously marks its upper end. Markland need not be conceived as of equal size, for in truth it represents at most only the wild and wooded interval between the hopelessly void and barren north and the great habitable, comfortable, and fruitful region stretch- ing far below ; but so much of parallelism holds as will forbid us to anchor the name to any one locality on the Newfoundland shore. Doubtless the long sea front of the great island as a whole is entitled to the name. INTERCOURSE BETWEEN GREENLAND AND MARKLAND No doubt it is surprising, in view of the deep impression which Markland obviously made on the Norsemen from near-by treeless