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A Book of American Explorers
Contributor(s): Higginson, Thomas Wentworth (Author)
ISBN: 1986728242     ISBN-13: 9781986728249
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
OUR PRICE:   $5.69  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: March 2018
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- Literary Collections
Physical Information: 0.26" H x 7" W x 10" (0.50 lbs) 124 pages
 
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These extracts are taken from two Icelandic works called Th ttr Eireks Rauda (the piece about Eirek the Red) and Graenlendinga Th tt (the piece about the Greenlanders). These passages were translated by J. Elliot Cabot, Esq., and were published in "The Massachusetts Quarterly Review" for March, 1849. It is now the general belief of historians, that these legends are mainly correct; and that the region described as Vinland was a part of the North-American Continent. Beyond this we do not know. The poet Whittier has written thus of these early explorers, in his poem called "The Norsemen: "-