Helluland

They sent exploring expeditions, and found the coast of North America at places which they called Helluland, that is, the land of flat stones;

Introductory American History Elbert Jay Benton

"I will call it Helluland or Stone Land," said Leif.

This Country of Ours: The Story of the United States Henrietta Elizabeth 1917

In the sagas they are called Helluland (stone-land), Markland (wood-land), and Vinland.

Early European History Hutton Webster

Labrador, and brought back with him a number of natives whose sturdy frames gave European spectators the idea that they would make good labourers; and it was this erroneous conception, it is generally thought, gave its present name to the rocky, forbidding region which the Norse voyagers had probably called Helluland five hundred years before.

Canada J. G. Bourinot

Information of these journeys include: homelands, western isles, Iceland, Greenland, Markland and Helluland, Vinland, and Land of Legend.

Archive 2006-05-01 2006

Information of these journeys include: homelands, western isles, Iceland, Greenland, Markland and Helluland, Vinland, and Land of Legend.

Creating, Managing & Pres. Dig. Assets: Vikings: The North Atlantic Saga 2006

Helluland was probably on the coast of Labrador, Markland somewhere on the shores of Newfoundland, and Vinland in Nova Scotia.

Introductory American History Elbert Jay Benton

The first land he made after leaving Greenland he named Helluland on account of its slaty rocks.

Canada J. G. Bourinot

The country which Leif called Helluland was most likely

This Country of Ours: The Story of the United States Henrietta Elizabeth 1917

There was no grass to be seen, but great snowy ridges far inland, "and all the way from the coast to these mountains was one field of snow, and it seemed to them a land of no profit," -- so they left, calling it Helluland, or Slate-land, perhaps the Labrador of the sixteenth century.

Prince Henry the Navigator, the Hero of Portugal and of Modern Discovery, 1394-1460 A.D. With an Account of Geographical Progress Throughout the Middle Ages As the Preparation for His Work. C. Raymond Beazley 1911