Auðun & a Bear

The final person surveyed is Auðun. Auðun lived in the Westfjord region of Iceland and boarded a ship at Vadil (Vaðill) – where he initially sailed is unrecorded, but he returned and then travel onto More, Norway.[64] From Norway, Auðun sailed to Eiriksfjord, Greenland, where he purchased a polar bear (Figure 17).[65]  From Greenland, Auðun headed back to Norway, possibly initially via More again, with an intention of sailing to gift the bear to the King of Denmark.[66] However, he was detained, shortly, by the King of Norway,[67] possibly near Bergen (Figure 18).