Note 149 — PRE-COLUMBIAN DISCOVERY.
Reading edition
The Northmen had two ways of reckoning a hundred, the short and the long. The long hundred was a hundred and twenty. We read in Tegner's Frithiof's Saga:
"But a house for itself was the banquet hall, fashioned in fir wood; Not five hundred, though told ten dozen to every hundred, Filled that chamber so vast, when they gathered for Yule-tide carousing." American ed., chap. iii, p. 13.
Professor Rafn infers that the long hundred was here meant, because he thinks that the inscription on Dighton Rock indicates CLI., the number of men Karlsefne had with him, after losing nine.