America Not Discovered by Columbus: A Historical Sketch of the Discovery of America by the Norsemen, in the Tenth CenturyS.C. Griggs, 1874 - 104 Seiten |
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ADAM OF BREMEN American continent ancestors ancient Anglo-Saxon antiquities Atlantic Ocean attention Bjarne saw Black Plague called Canute CHAPTER coast Columbus conquered Denmark DIGHTON WRITING ROCK discovered America discovery of America early Edda eminent England English enterprise Erik the Red Erik Upsi European expedition fact Ganger Rolf German Gothic grammar Greece Greenland Gudrid Harald HELLULAND Iceland and Greenland Icelandic literature inhabitants inscription institutions interest Irish island King land language and literature learned Leif Erikson Leif's literary literature of Iceland living modern monument nations native Norsemen Northern Northmen Norway Norwegian Norwegian-Danish Old Norse origin PHENICIAN poet poetry Pope Paschal II present prose R. B. ANDERSON Rafn reader river S. C. GRIGGS Sagas sailed says Scandinavian languages scholars settlement ship Sigurd Slembe sketch Skrællings SNORRE spirit tenth century Teutonic race Thorstein THORWALD ERIKSON tion tongue University Vinland visited voyage western wind
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Seite 54 - There lived we many years; Time dried the maiden's tears; She had forgot her fears, She was a mother; Death closed her mild blue eyes, Under that tower she lies; Ne'er shall the sun arise On such another! "Still grew my bosom then, Still as a stagnant fen! Hateful to me were men, The sunlight hateful! In the vast forest here, Clad in my warlike gear, Fell I upon my spear, Oh, death was grateful!
Seite 53 - Three weeks we westward bore, And when the storm was o'er, Cloud-like we saw the shore Stretching to lee-ward ; There for my lady's bower Built I the lofty tower, Which, to this very hour, Stands looking sea-ward.
Seite 102 - Silence as of death,' writes he; 'for Midnight, even in the Arctic latitudes, has its character: nothing but the granite cliffs ruddy-tinged, the peaceable gurgle of that slow-heaving Polar Ocean, over which in the utmost North the great Sun hangs low and lazy, as if he too were slumbering. Yet is his cloud-couch wrought of crimson and...
Seite 92 - 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. Yet, happily, the people are fast becoming conscious of their indebtedness; so that it is to be hoped, that the time is not far distant when the Northmen may be recognized in their right, social, political and literary characters, and at the same time, as navigators, assume their true position in the Pre-Columbian Discovery...
Seite 84 - HISTORY has not recorded the annals of a people who have occasioned greater, more sudden, or more numerous revolutions in Europe than the Scandinavians *, or whose antiquities, at the same time, are so little known.
Seite 82 - British constitution, representative legislation, the trial by jury, security of property, freedom of mind and person, the influence of public opinion over the conduct of public affairs, the Reformation, the liberty of the press, the spirit of the age — all that is or has been of value to man in modern times as a...
Seite 62 - NAM, which has been interpreted by Prof. Rafn as follows: " Thorfinn, with one hundred and fifty-one Norse seafaring men took possession of this land (landnam)." In the lower left corner of the inscription is a figure of a woman and a child, near the latter of which is the letter S, reminding us most forcibly of Gudrid and her son, Snorre. Upon the whole, the Dighton Writing Rock, if Prof.
Seite 89 - All hail ! — The Sire of Song appears The Muse's eldest born ; The skylark in the dawn of years, The poet of the morn.
Seite 49 - They then immediately returned to the ship. Now sailed they thence into the open sea with a north-east wind, and were two days at sea before they saw land, and they sailed thither and came to an island which lay to the eastward of the land, and went up there, and looked...
Seite 90 - In the vast solitudes around him, the heart of Nature beat against his own. From the midnight gloom of groves the deepvoiced pines answered the deeper-voiced and neighbouring sea. To his ear these were not the voices of dead, but of living things. Demons rode the ocean like a weary steed, and the gigantic pines flapped their sounding wings to smite the spirit of the storm. Still wilder and fiercer were these influences of Nature in desolate Iceland, than on the mainland of Scandinavia. Fields of...