"Then left they the land or their larboard side, and let the stern turn from the land. Afterwards they sailed two days before they saw another land. They asked if Bjarne thought that this was Greenland, but he said that he as little believed this to be Greenland as the other; "because in Greenland are said to be very high ice hills.""
At this point Bjarne had missed Greenland altogether and is sailing down the east coast of Canada somewhere, later known as Vinland because of the grapes growing there (further south than where Bjarne is atm), and briefly colonised by Leif the Lucky (or, not so lucky in the end), son of Eirik the Red.
https://notendur.hi.is/haukurth/utgafa/greenlanders.html
Interesting find on the Greenland glaciers, thanks.
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