Aperçu de l'ancienne géographie des régions arctiques de l'Amerique: selon les rapports contenus dans les sagas du nordImprimerie de Berling, 1847 - 11 pages |
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Page 48 - Accompanied by his wife, who encouraged him to this. voyage, and by a crew of 160 men on board three vessels, he repaired in the spring of 1007 to Vineland, where he remained for three years, and had many communications with the aborigines.
Page 50 - Burislav, and Vartislav ; the whole of one Saga is devoted to this Eymund. Saint Olaf was intimately connected with the Russian court, and his son Magnus the Good, afterwards King of Norway and Denmark, spent there a good part of his youth. Together with Rognvald Brusason, at a later period Earl of the Orkneys, Harald Hardrade was long the lord of the marches to the Grand Prince, and Harald himself was afterwards chieftain of the Vering Guard in Miklagard (Constantinople).
Page 48 - In the mean time it is the total result of the nautical, geographical and astronomical evidences in the original documents, which places the situation of the countries discovered beyond all doubt. The number of days...
Page 48 - The number of days' sail between the several newly-found lands, the striking description of the coasts, especially the white sand-banks of Nova Scotia, and the long beaches and downs of a peculiar appearance on Cape Cod (the Kialarnes and Furdustrandir of the Northmen), are not to be mistaken.
Page 47 - A German named Tyrker, who accompanied Leif on this voyage, was the man who found the wild vines, which he recognized from having seen them in his own land, and Leif gave the country its name from this circumstance.
Page 48 - THORWALD, repaired thither, and in 1003 caused an expedition to be undertaken to the south, along the shore, but he was killed in the summer of 1004 on a voyage northwards, in a skirmish with the natives. The most distinguished however of all the first American discoverers is THOEFIN KARLSEFNE, an Icelander, whose genealogy...
Page 50 - Planispheres from the 13th and 14th, have been appended. These are remarkable for having the same orientation as those of the Arabian Cartographers in the middle ages, they have the South at the top. Among the geographical annotations for which we are indebted to the Abbot Nicolas of Thingeyrar in the North of Iceland, is a journey to the Holy Land in 1151-1153, containing interesting notices for comparison with other voyages to the East at the >ame period; among them is an Arabic appellation not...
Page 47 - ... and develope their hereditary maritime skill and thirst for new discoveries across the great ocean. As early as the year 877, Gunnbiorn saw for the first time the mountainous coast of Greenland. But this land was first visited by Erik the Red in 983, who, three years afterwards, in...
Page 50 - As an illustration to the ancient Icelandic Geographical Monuments, a Mappemonde from the 12th century, and three Planispheres from the 13th and 14th, have been appended. These are remarkable for having the same orientation as those of the Arabian Cartographers in the middle ages, they have the South at the top. Among the geographical annotations for which we are indebted to the Abbot Nicolas of Thingeyrar in the North of Iceland, is a journey to the Holy Land in...
Page 48 - Bishop ERIK sailed to Vineland from Greenland, doubtless for the purpose of strengthening his countrymen in their Christian faith. The notices given by the old Icelandic voyage-chroniclers respecting the climate, the soil and the productions of this new country are very characteristic. Nay, we have even a statement of this kind as old as the eleventh...