As you reread, restate the main and secondary ideas. Classify them one after the other, according to the order in which they appear in the text. According to the Sagas, it's the sons of Eirίkr the Red who temporarily settle in America, as well as his daughter. The first, Leifr Eirίksonn, “the son of Eirίkr”, nicknamed “hinn heppni”, “the lucky one”, discovered Halluland, the land of flat stones, probably Labrador, in the year 1000, which Cartier, five hundred years later, compared to sleeping oxen on the coast. Further south, Leifr discovered coasts of white sand with immense forests in the background. He calls this territory Markland, the land of forests, where the Vikings came to gather wood for who knows how long, probably for as long as the West Greenland colonies lasted, where these woody resources were in short supply and yet remained essential to the Viking way of life. And it was at a cape preceded by an island that he discovered the famous Vinland, “land of vines”, if the i is long, or “land of meadows”, if the i is short - impossible to decide either. The only certainty is that the Saga mentions that “there were cold fields there, which had sown themselves, and vine plants. These trees are undoubtedly maples, traces of which were found as far away as Greenland and Iceland centuries later. In this famous Vinland, Leifr founds the first colony, Leifsbúđir, which would consist of wooden huts, perhaps located in Nova Scotia, perhaps in Maine, perhaps also on a shore of the St. Lawrence, where Cartier will find, as we know, wild vines, notably on Orleans Island, which he first names “Bacchus Island”, so many wild grapes grow there. Leifr's brother, Thorvaldr Eirίksonn, returned the following year and died in a skirmish with the mysterious Skraelingar, “evil spirits” in the Viking lexicon, who were too quickly identified with the Inuit, even though the Vikings had known about the Greenlanders for decades. Perhaps they were the Naskapi, who inhabited the enigmatic Hvitramannaland, “land of the white men”, since these northern Innu dressed in the white skins of caribou or polar bear - nothing is clear. Perhaps they were also among the last descendants of the Dorset people, present in the Arctic for millennia?There is still some doubt as to the possible confusion between the Viking dwellings found recently, notably in Baffin Island or Ellesemere Island, and the Dorse- tian dwellings: is it possible that those who preceded the Inuit in the lands of the Far North were able to build dwellings similar to those of the Vikings? Another point of doubt is that, as the Vikings travelled northwards, they encountered five kraelingar, including one with a beard4 , even though these people were known to be hairless. In any case, the marvellous is mingled with legend in these oral Viking tales transcribed by medieval clerics, in which the uniped people intervene and the sailors remain trapped in a sea of slimy worms, where the skraelingar suddenly disappear, either because they turn out to be an illu- sion of the senses, according to Scandinavian magic, or because they sink into the ground, like mischievous spirits belonging to the invisible world that only prophetesses such as Thorbjörg from the Saga of Eirik the Red can know through the magical ceremony of sejdr.