Helluland"Land of Flat Rocks" or "Land of Flat Stones". The first of the three lands the Greenland Norse found in North America. According to a footnote in Arthur Middleton Reeves's The Norse Discovery of America (1906), "the whole of the northern coast of America, west of Greenland, was called by the ancient Icelandic geographers Helluland it Mikla, or "Great Helluland"; and the island of Newfoundland simply Helluland, or Litla Helluland."[8] Most scholars agree that Helluland corresponds to Baffin Island in the present-day Canadian territory of Nunavut.[9]
Markland"Forest Land". A land south of Helluland in North America.
Vínland"Wine land", "pasture land". The area of coastal North America explored by Norse Vikings.
Ulf is the first to land on the West coast of Greenland, about 84 years before Leif E. He would reference the ice and sand that surrounded the fjord they launched from in search of more accomodating soil to grow in.
