The same spring, King Olaf, as said before, sent Gissur[123] and
Hialte[124] to Iceland. The king also sent Leif to Greenland to proclaim
Christianity there. The king sent with him, a priest, and some other
religious men, to baptize the people and teach them the true faith. Leif
sailed the same summer to Greenland; he took up out of the ocean, the
people of a ship who were on a wreck completely destroyed, and in a
perishing condition. And on this same voyage he discovered Vinland the
Good,[125] and came at the close of summer to Brattahlid, to his father
Eric. After that time the people called him, Leif the Fortunate; but his
father Eric said that these two things went against one another; that
Leif had saved the crew of the ship, and delivered them from death, and
that he had [brought] that bad man into Greenland, that is what he
called the priest; but after much urging, Eric was baptized,[126] as
well as all the people of Greenland.