When Maelduin and his companions put to sea from Ireland in a coracle with three hides (while Karlsevne has three ships), they came first to two small islands (while Karlsevne came to Bjarneyjar). After this for three days and three nights the Irishmen came upon no land; "on the morning of the third day" they heard the waves breaking on a beach, but when daylight came and they approached the land, swarms of ants, as large as foals, came down to the beach and showed a desire to eat them and the boat (these are the gold-digging ants of Indo-Greek legend). This land is the parallel to Helluland, where there were a number of arctic foxes (cf. the description of the arrival there, p. 323).--After having fled thence for three days and three nights, the Irishmen heard "on the morning of the third day" the waves breaking on a beach, and when daylight came they saw a great, lofty island with terraces around it and rows of trees, on which there were many large birds; they ate their fill of these and took some of them in the boat. This island might correspond to the wooded Markland, with its many animals, where Karlsevne and his people killed a bear.--After another three days and three nights at sea, the Irish voyagers "on the morning of the fourth day" saw a great sandy island; on approaching the shore they saw there a fabulous beast like a horse with dog's paws and claws. For fear of the beast they rowed away without landing. This great sandy island may be compared with Furðustrandir, where there were no harbours and it was difficult to land.--The Irishmen then travelled "for a long time" before they came to a large, flat island, where two men landed to examine the island, which they found to be large and broad, and they saw marks of horses' hoofs as large as a ship's sail, and nutshells as large as "cōedi" (a measure of capacity ?), and traces of many human beings. This bears a resemblance to Karlsevne's having "a long way" to sail along Furðustrandir before he came to a bay, where the two Scots went ashore to examine the country, were absent three days, and found grapes and wheat.--After that the Irishmen travelled for a week, in hunger and thirst, until they came to a great, lofty island, with a great house on the beach, with two doors, "one towards the plain on the island and one towards the sea"; and through the latter the waves of the sea threw salmon into the middle of the house. They found decorated couches and crystal goblets with good drink in the house, but no human being, and they took meat and drink and thanked God. Karlsevne proceeded from the bay and came to Straumsey, which was thick with birds and eggs, and to Straumsfjord, where they established themselves (i.e., built houses). And there were mountains and a fair prospect and high grass; and they had catches from two sides, "hunting on the land, and eggs and fish from the sea"; and where, to begin with, they did nothing but make themselves acquainted with the land.--From the island with the house Maelduin and his men travelled about "for a long time," hungry and without food, until they found an island which was encompassed by a great cliff ("alt mor impi"). There was a very thin and tall tree there; Maelduin caught a branch of it in his hand as they passed by; for three days and three nights the branch was in his hand, while the boat was sailing past the cliff, and on the third day there were three apples at the end of the branch (cf. Karlsevne's runners who returned after three days with grapes and wheat in their hands), on which they lived for forty days. Karlsevne and his men suffered great want during the winter at Straumsfjord; and from that place, where they lived on land in houses, they sailed "for a long time" before they came to the country with the self-sown wheat and vines, where there were great sandbanks off the mouth of the river, so that they had a difficulty in landing.