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Thorstein, Leif's brother, marries Gudrid, widow of the captain rescued by Leif, then leads a third expedition to bring home Thorvald's body, but is driven off course and spends the whole summer wandering the Atlantic.

Spending the winter as a guest at a farm on Greenland with Gudrid, Thorstein dies of sickness, reviving just long enough to make a prophecy about her future as a Christian.

The next winter, Gudrid marries a visiting Icelander named Thorfinn Karlsefni, who agrees to undertake a major expedition to Vinland, taking livestock.

On arrival, they soon find a beached whale which sustains them until spring.

In the summer, they are visited by some of the local inhabitants who are scared by the Greenlanders ' bull but happy to trade goods for milk and other products.

In autumn, Gudrid gives birth to a son, Snorri.

Shortly after this, one of the local people tries to take a weapon and is killed ; the explorers are then attacked in force, but manage to survive with only minor casualties by retreating to a well-chosen defensive position a short distance from their base.

One of the local people picks up an iron axe, tries it, and throws it away.

The explorers return to Greenland in summer with a cargo of grapes and hides.

Shortly afterwards, a ship captained by two Icelanders arrives in Greenland, and Freydis, daughter of Eric the Red, persuades them to join her in an expedition to Vinland.

They sail that autumn, but disagreements during the winter lead to the killing, at Freydis ' order, of all the Icelanders, including five women, as they lie sleeping.

In spring the Greenlanders return home with a good cargo, but Leif finds the truth about the Icelanders.

That is the last Vinland expedition recorded in the saga.