The Pre-Columbian Discovery of America by the Northmen

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B[enjamin Franklin] De Costa
J. Munsell, 1868 - 118 ページ
 

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28 ページ - There were huge snowy mountains up the country ; but all the way from the sea up to these snowy ridges the land was one field of snow, and it appeared to them a country of no advantages. Leif said, " It shall not be said of us, as it was of Biarne, that we did not come upon the land ; for I will give the country a name, and call it Helleland.* Then they went on board again, put to sea, and found another land.
58 ページ - Skraelings took a piece of red cloth, a span long, and bound it round their heads. Thus went on their traffic for a time; then the cloth began to fall short among...
47 ページ - Fellow, to whom I never did any wrong in my Life. Whereupon he gave a particular Description of the Murderer; adding, Brother, This Fellow changing his Name, is attempting to come over unto...
xli ページ - Flatoiensis, a work that was finished in the year 1387, or 1395 at the latest. This collection, made with great care and executed in the highest style of art, is now preserved in its integrity ' in the archives of Copenhagen. These manuscripts were for a time supposed to be lost, but were ultimately found safely lodged in their repository in the monastery library of the island of Flato, from whence they were transferred to Copenhagen with a...
iii ページ - Saxon inheritance; it is rather from the Northmen that we have derived our vital energy, our freedom of thought, and, in a measure that we do not yet suspect, our strength of speech.
64 ページ - It shall not be thus. Go thou down into the boat, and I will go up into the ship, since I see that thou art so desirous to live.
42 ページ - But me ye shall convey to that headland which seemed to me to offer so pleasant a dwelling-place: thus it may be fulfilled that the truth sprang to my lips when I expressed the wish to abide there for a time. Ye shall bury me there, and place a cross at my head, and another at my feet, and call it Crossness forever after.
liv ページ - Second, we have a very remarkable contradiction. Lord Clarendon relates that he was condemned to be hanged, which was performed the same day ; on the contrary, Burnet, Wpodrow, Heath, Echard, concur in stating that he was beheaded ; and that he was condemned upon the Saturday, and executed upon the Monday...
23 ページ - They one and all agreed to go with him. Biarne said, " Our expedition will be thought foolish, as none of us have ever been on the Greenland sea before.
34 ページ - This was the father's stern right, and, though the mothers of that age were generally blessed with robust offspring, still the right was often exercised. As soon as it was born, the infant was laid upon the bare ground, and, until the father came and looked at it, heard and saw that it was strong in lung and limb, took it up in his arms, and handed it over to its nurse, its fate hung in the balance, and life or death depended on the sentence of its sire.

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