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According to the Landnámabók , Ari Marsson discovered the island six days' sailing west of Ireland . The inhabitants, presumably Christians, baptized him but would not permit him to leave the island. White Men's Land is also mentioned in The Saga Of Eric The Red , where it is related that the inhabitants of Markland speak of it to Thorfinn Karlsefni . In Eyrbyggja Saga , Gudleif Gudlaugson and his crew are said to have visited the island, whose inhabitants spoke Irish . These Irishmen wanted to kill or enslave the Norsemen, but they were saved by the intervention of an Icelander who lived among them. They took this man to be Bjorn Asbrandson, who had been exiled from Iceland some thirty years earlier. In modern times, attempts have been made to equate Great Ireland with the southeastern coast of the United States or other places, but in all likelihood the island was never anything but mythical. |
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