The Pre-Columbian Discovery of America by the Northmen: Illustrated by Translations from the Icelandic SagasBenjamin Franklin DeCosta J. Munsell, 1868 - 118 Seiten |
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Seite iii - Northmen we honor those who not only give us the first knowledge possessed of the American continent, but to whom we are indebted for much beside that we esteem valuable. For we fable in a great measure when we speak of our " 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.
Seite 66 - Care ; having passed it we bore up again with the land, and in the night came with it anchoring in eight fathoms, the ground good.
Seite 58 - 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...
Seite 24 - Now they let the sails stand, and kept along the land, and saw it was an island. Then they turned from the land, and stood out to sea with the same breeze ; but the gale increased, and Biarne ordered a reef to be taken in, and not to sail harder than the ship and her tackle could easily bear. After sailing three days and nights they made, the fourth time, land; and when they asked Biarne if he thought this was Greenland or not, Biarne replies, " This is most like what has been told me of Greenland...
Seite 67 - He replied that it did not concern them and not to wonder, as he was old enough to take care of himself, without their troubling themselves with his affairs. They asked him to go home with them; this he did.
Seite 28 - 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 Helloland.* Then they went on board again, put to sea, and found another land.
Seite 46 - ... race of posterity. Ye shall go from Greenland to Norway, and from thence to Iceland, where ye shall dwell. And long will ye live together, but thou wilt survive him; and then thou shalt go abroad, and. go southwards, and shall return to thy home in Iceland. And there must a church be built, and thou must remain there and be consecrated a nun, and there end thy days.
Seite 36 - Now they sailed under the rock, lowered their sails, cast anchor, and put out another small boat which they had with them.
Seite 46 - Several trying to lean on the bed's head, tho' the sick man lay wholly still, the bed would shake so as to knock their heads uncomfortably. A very strong man could not lift the sick., man to make him lie more easily, tho...
Seite xxxviii - The length of keel that rested upon the grass was seventy-four ells. Thorberg Skafting was the man's name who was the master-builder of the ship ; but there were many others besides, — some to fell wood, some to shape it, some to make nails, some to carry timber; and all that was used was of the best.