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...decided to sail westward to find the new land. First, say the sagas, the crew came to a forbidding land of rocks and glaciers. Then they sailed on to a wooded bay, where they dropped anchor for a while. Eventually they continued south to a place he called Vinland ("wineland," probably for the wild grapes that grew there). Leif and his party made camp for the winter, then sailed home. Members of his family returned in later years, but Leif never did. Erik died shortly after his son returned, and Leif took over the Greenland colony. Though he retained ownership...
...know what your favorite California wine tastes like. But where is it made? And what does the countryside look like? For answers, consider one of two new coffee-table atlases of West Coast wineland. The Wine Atlas of California (Viking; $50) by James Halliday is organized according to American Viticultural Areas (AVAS), the U.S. government's muddled system of classifying the nation's wine-growing regions. Halliday, who is Australia's leading wine critic, writes with considerable zip and has a fine eye for the offbeat. Profiling the imaginative "Gunny-Bunny" team from Sonoma County's Gundlach Bundschu winery...
DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS. In Allan Lewis' comedy, Anne Baxter is a widow who falls in love with a man from the State Department (Gene Raymond). To make things cozier, her daughter is in love with his son. Dennis, Mass.; Ivoryton, Conn.; Wineland, Ont.; Ogunquit, Me.; Skowhegan...
...SCANDINAVIAN CONFERENCE. (Joint meeting with the Harvard Edda Club). "The Wineland Voyages from the Navigator's Point of View." Professor William Hovgaard, late Commander of the Royal Danish Navy. Russell Hall...
...victorious to Norway and wed the beautiful Sylvia, to whom Leif is betrothed. Sigurd incites the crew to mutiny and they engage the medicine man to offer Leif some drugged wine. Leif and Tyrker return at dusk and drink copiously of the wine and and Leif names the land "Wineland the Good." The drug has its effect and both drowsily fall on the rocks. They doze off to sleep as Sigurd and the Vikings go aboard ship and raise the sails...
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