[232] The priest Ari Thorgilsson, commonly called Ari hinn Fróði or Are Frode (i.e., the learned), lived from 1068 to 1148.
[233] G. Storm, “Monumenta Historica Norvegiæ,” 1880, pp. 8 f.
[234] R. Meissner [1902, pp. 43 f.] thinks it was written between 1260 and 1264.
[235] The original Landnámabók, which was the source of both Styrmir’s and Sturle’s versions, must have been written at the beginning of the thirteenth century.
[236] Cf. Vigfússon, 1856, i. p. 186; P. A. Munch, 1860; J. E. Sars, 1877, i. p. 213; A. Bugge 1905, pp. 377 ff. Finnur Jónsson, 1894, ii. p. 188, is against this view.
[237] Thus the Norsemen settled in Greenland are always described in the Icelandic sagas, while the Eskimo are called Skrælings.
[238] Opinions have been divided as to the origin of this name; but there can be no doubt that the word is Germanic, and is the same as the modern Norwegian word “skrælling,” which denotes a poor, weak, puny creature.
[239] This took place, according to Are Frode’s own statements, in the year 1000.
[240] It seems possible that this note may refer to an island which appeared in 1422 south-west of Reykjarnes, and later again disappeared [cf. Th. Thoroddsen, 1897, i. pp. 89 f.].
[241] See “Grönlands historiske Mindesmærker,” iii. p. 250; F. Jónsson, 1899, p. 322.