The Pre-Columbian Discovery of America, by the Northmen: With Translations from the Icelandic Sagas

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J. Munsell's son, 1901 - 230 ページ
 

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102 ページ - ... orld, I warrant you sail find, in the comparisons between Macedon and Monmouth, that the situations, look you, is both alike. There is a river in Macedon; and there is also moreover a river at Monmouth: it is called Wye at Monmouth; but it is out of my prains what is the name of the other river; but 'tis all one, 'tis alike as my fingers is to my fingers, and there is salmons in both.
159 ページ - Glaumbceiar-land, and made his home there, and dwelt there as long as he lived, and was a man of the greatest prominence. From him and his wife, Gudrid, a numerous and goodly lineage is descended. After Karlsefni's death Gudrid, together with her son Snorri, who was born in...
114 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.
119 ページ - Divers noises were also heard in the room where the corpse lay, as the clattering of chairs and stools, whereof no account could be given.
139 ページ - ... half of our men, it is my counsel that lots should be drawn for those to go in the boat, for it shall not be according to rank.
110 ページ - Olaf, in good repute, and embraced Christianity. But the summer that Gissur went to Iceland, King Olaf sent Leif to Greenland, in order to make known Christianity there.
68 ページ - Lord Clarendon relates that he was condemned to be hanged, which was performed the same day ; on the contrary, Burnet...
119 ページ - Brother,' answered the apparition. Said Joseph, ' What's the matter Brother ? how came you here ? ' The apparition replied : ' Brother I have been most barbarously and inhumanly murdered by a debauch'd fellow, to whom I never did any wrong in my life.
118 ページ - This I have now to tell thee, Gudrid, that thou wilt be married to an Iceland man, and ye will live long together and from you will descend many men, brave, gallant and wise, and a well-pleasing race of posterity. Ye shall go from Greenland to Norway, and from thence to Iceland, where ye shall dwell.

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