Helluland

It is not known for certain which area corresponds to this Helluland, but it might be either the Baffin Island and the Labrador coast. The presence of people in the Northern Baffin Island is suggested by several ärchäologische finds that were found on Baffin Island and adjacent islands.

From the findings of an excavation in Tanfield Valley on the southeast coast of Baffin Island is concluded that at this point a trading post of the Grænlendingar have located, had been driven from which trade with the makers of the Dorset culture. The findings are, inter alia, yarns, sharpening stones and remnants of European rats that may have come there with ships Grænlendingar. The excavated yarn and twine balls are of how to prepare them forth with such comparable to those found in the settlements of Grænlendingar; However, they often include components from the hair of wild animals such as the arctic fox and muskrat. In addition, the remains of a Torfsoden and stone building was examined and interpreted as a Scandinavian origin. Radiocarbon analyzes indicate a use of this place until the 14th century.

It could also be that it is the Bjarneyjar mentioned in the Erik Saga at Baffin Island and adjacent islands. Apart from there, plentiful polar bears, which are available as a name, is to understand why the journey of Karlsefni only went northward to West settlement, even though the target was in the southwest. The Baffin Island was easier to reach from the western settlement; the distance is roughly equivalent to the to the northern hunting grounds. The specified travel time of two half- days seem downright plausible in this context of the Bjarneyjar after Helluland. The distance from Baffin Island to the coast of Labrador is only about 300 km. For the classification of Baffin Island as the Bjarneyjar is supported by the dating of some findings, such as yarn residues, to the period before 1000th An already well-known area would have required no new naming after 1000 AD.

About the trip the group to Thorfinn Karlsefni, starting from Brattahlid in the eastern settlement, according to the saga of Eirik RAUDA:

" They sailed landward side; then to the western settlement ( Vestribygd ) and the Bjarneyjar ( the Bear Islands - a Greenlanders apparently known island group). Then they sailed on the Bjarneyjar ( the Bear Islands) with northerly winds. They drove two half days ( the descriptions of northerly winds and two half-day repeated for several travel sections ) on the high seas. Then they came to land, and rowed in boats along this, and explored it. There they found many large, flat stones. The stones were so large that two men sprawled on the back and heel could lay it on the heel ( ie the stones had a diameter of about 3.40 m ). Arctic foxes were in abundance. You give the country a name and called it Helluland ( Stone Land). "