opposite Orleans. It is a warm, sunny evening, nearly sunset; the island is a fairyland, covered with trees and flowers. )
[DISSOLVE TO:
The Beach
( The ship is stranded on the beach, and the men are spreading out along the foreshore and the beach head. It is sunset and most beautiful, as beautiful as can be contrived . The men are moving quietly, looking around them in wonder and in awe at such a lovely place.)
(Presently one of them stoops to pick a flower. His finger strikes something sticky on a leaf; he licks it and exclaims. Presently several of the men are picking leaves and licking them.)
A MAN Lord, there is honey on the leaves in this island.
( Leif and Tyrker pick leaves and try them.)
TYRKER (In awe) Lord, this is honey dew. In my country, in the old stories that old people tell around the fireside in the winter, they say that in the Happy Land honey falls like dew from heaven in the night.
LEIF [Thoughtfully) The Happy Land . . .
(He looks around. Through a thin screen of a few trees he sees the sunset, bright and rosy in the west. Between the trees he sees Haki walking with Haekia; they are laughing together at some private joke of their own. This scene must be as beautiful as can be contrived. )
LEIF (Quietly) I heard once of the Happy Land, which some men call Hy Breasail. No thief, no robber, and no enemy pursues one there; there is no violence, and no winter snow. In that place it is always spring. No flower or lily is wanting, no rose or violet but you will find them there.
( During this speech the camera should pick up these features one by one, verifying them visually.)
—There apple trees bear flowers and fruit on the same branch, all the year round. There young men live in quiet happiness with their girls ( the camera picks up Haki and Haekia, engrossed in each other); there is no old age and no sickness and no sorrow there. All is full of joy.
TYRKER (Uneasily) Lord, do you think that this place is Hy Breasail?
LEIF (Rousing) I don't know. I know only this; it is so beautiful
that it might well be we have found the Happy Land. I will not
spend the night here; we may be bewitched. We will anchor off
shore for the night and sleep in the ship.
[DISSOLVE TO:
The Anchorage
( It is a late evening scene, almost night. The ship is anchored off the beach; it is cloudless, and dead calm. The island lies silhouetted against the faint remnants of the sunset, very beautiful. In the ship the dim forms of men are seen staring at the beauty of the scene, silent and in wonder. )
[FADE TO:
The Classroom
CALLENDER Next morning they set sail again towards the south. ( Indicates on the map. ) They turned the corner of the land by Chatham, here, and sailed along the south shore of Cape Cod into Nantucket Sound. And on the south shore of the Cape they landed, setting foot for the first time on the American continent.
[DISSOLVE TO:
The Landing
( For the location of this landing, which the saga and historical analysis define only as somewhere on the south coast of Cape Cod, I suggest that they enter Osterville Harbour and proceed right up into the little land-locked, tree-enclosed pool ( unnamed ) half a mile south of Marstons Mills ( Map Reference, U. S. Geological Survey, Barnstable, Mass., quadrangle ). Alternatively a suitable site could be found two miles west, in Poponesset Bay.)
(The ship enters a wooded creek or bay. She approaches a beach and strands; the men get out of her and make her fast with anchors and ropes. )
[DISSOLVE TO:
Camp at the Beach Head
(A camp has been made and tents pitched as at the Hebrides, because the Norsemen mean to stay here for several days. Leif and Tyrker are talking to Haki and Haekia. )
LEIF Well, we've found the wood, Haki; the wood we need at home for our cowhouses. I don't think we can go on any further; these new lands may go on and on to the end of the world. We're going to camp here and cut and trim these trees, enough to load the ship. Then we will
[DISSOLVE TO:
The Beach
( The ship is stranded on the beach, and the men are spreading out along the foreshore and the beach head. It is sunset and most beautiful, as beautiful as can be contrived . The men are moving quietly, looking around them in wonder and in awe at such a lovely place.)
(Presently one of them stoops to pick a flower. His finger strikes something sticky on a leaf; he licks it and exclaims. Presently several of the men are picking leaves and licking them.)
A MAN Lord, there is honey on the leaves in this island.
( Leif and Tyrker pick leaves and try them.)
TYRKER (In awe) Lord, this is honey dew. In my country, in the old stories that old people tell around the fireside in the winter, they say that in the Happy Land honey falls like dew from heaven in the night.
LEIF [Thoughtfully) The Happy Land . . .
(He looks around. Through a thin screen of a few trees he sees the sunset, bright and rosy in the west. Between the trees he sees Haki walking with Haekia; they are laughing together at some private joke of their own. This scene must be as beautiful as can be contrived. )
LEIF (Quietly) I heard once of the Happy Land, which some men call Hy Breasail. No thief, no robber, and no enemy pursues one there; there is no violence, and no winter snow. In that place it is always spring. No flower or lily is wanting, no rose or violet but you will find them there.
( During this speech the camera should pick up these features one by one, verifying them visually.)
—There apple trees bear flowers and fruit on the same branch, all the year round. There young men live in quiet happiness with their girls ( the camera picks up Haki and Haekia, engrossed in each other); there is no old age and no sickness and no sorrow there. All is full of joy.
TYRKER (Uneasily) Lord, do you think that this place is Hy Breasail?
LEIF (Rousing) I don't know. I know only this; it is so beautiful
that it might well be we have found the Happy Land. I will not
spend the night here; we may be bewitched. We will anchor off
shore for the night and sleep in the ship.
[DISSOLVE TO:
The Anchorage
( It is a late evening scene, almost night. The ship is anchored off the beach; it is cloudless, and dead calm. The island lies silhouetted against the faint remnants of the sunset, very beautiful. In the ship the dim forms of men are seen staring at the beauty of the scene, silent and in wonder. )
[FADE TO:
The Classroom
CALLENDER Next morning they set sail again towards the south. ( Indicates on the map. ) They turned the corner of the land by Chatham, here, and sailed along the south shore of Cape Cod into Nantucket Sound. And on the south shore of the Cape they landed, setting foot for the first time on the American continent.
[DISSOLVE TO:
The Landing
( For the location of this landing, which the saga and historical analysis define only as somewhere on the south coast of Cape Cod, I suggest that they enter Osterville Harbour and proceed right up into the little land-locked, tree-enclosed pool ( unnamed ) half a mile south of Marstons Mills ( Map Reference, U. S. Geological Survey, Barnstable, Mass., quadrangle ). Alternatively a suitable site could be found two miles west, in Poponesset Bay.)
(The ship enters a wooded creek or bay. She approaches a beach and strands; the men get out of her and make her fast with anchors and ropes. )
[DISSOLVE TO:
Camp at the Beach Head
(A camp has been made and tents pitched as at the Hebrides, because the Norsemen mean to stay here for several days. Leif and Tyrker are talking to Haki and Haekia. )
LEIF Well, we've found the wood, Haki; the wood we need at home for our cowhouses. I don't think we can go on any further; these new lands may go on and on to the end of the world. We're going to camp here and cut and trim these trees, enough to load the ship. Then we will
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