| A Book of American Explorers Contributor(s): Higginson, Thomas Wentworth (Author) |
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ISBN: 1986728242 ISBN-13: 9781986728249 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $5.69 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections |
| Physical Information: 0.26" H x 7" W x 10" (0.50 lbs) 124 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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: "- |