The Norse discoverers of America
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About This Book
. 1970, bright clean copy, with dustjacket, no markings, Professional booksellers since 1981
Chapters (392)
- THE NORSE Discoverers of AMERICA
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- CHRONOLOGICAL SUMMARY
- GENEALOGICAL TABLE
- §1. ERIC THE RED AND THE COLONIZATION OF GREENLAND
- §2. THE ADVENTURE OF BJARNI HERJULFSON
- §3. OF THORBJÖRN VIFILSON
- §4. GUDRID COMES TO GREENLAND
- §5. GUDRID AND THE SIBYL
- §6. LEIF GOES TO NORWAY
- §7. LEIF DISCOVERS WINELAND
- §8. THORVALD’S VOYAGE AND DEATH
- §9. THORSTEIN’S UNSUCCESSFUL VENTURE
- §10. THE EXPEDITION OF THORFIN KARLSEFNI
- §11. FREYDIS
- APPENDIX
- 1. Eric the Red.
- Eyrbyggja Saga, chap. 24.
- From Ari’s Íslendíngabók.
- 2. Leif.
- Saga of Olaf Tryggvason (Fríssbók text).
- Kristni Saga (Hauk’s Book).
- Flatey Book, chap. 352 (in the body of the Saga of Olaf Tryggvason).
- Saga of Eric the Red and Hauk’s Book, the latter italicized.
- Flatey Book.
- 3. Thorvald’s Voyage.
- Hauk’s Book: the companion text is here badly confused by the copyist.
- 4. Thorstein’s Voyage.
- Saga of Eric the Red and Hauk’s Book, the latter italicized.
- 5. Thorfin Karlsefni.
- Flatey Book Version.
- 6. Karlsefni’s Descendants.
- Saga of Eric the Red with Hauk’s Book. (The latter italicized.)
- Ari’s Íslendíngabók.
- I. NATURE OF THE EVIDENCE
- Oral Tradition in Iceland.
- Ari the Learned.
- The Landnámabók.
- Adam of Bremen.
- Date of the Existing Manuscripts.
- Hauk’s Book and the Saga of Eric the Red.
- Hauk’s Personal Authority.
- Independence of the Flatey Version.
- Date of the Flatey Book.
- II. THE DISCREPANCIES OF THE FLATEY BOOK
- Bjarni Herjulfson.
- Leif’s Voyage.
- Thorvald.
- Freydis.
- Courses.
- The Stranded Whale.
- Thori Eastman.
- Death of Eric the Red.
- A Greenland Saga?
- Direct Voyages to Norway.
- III. THE STORIES AS HISTORY
- Admixture of the Supernatural.
- Character of Early History.
- Dr. Nansen’s Position.
- Minor Objections.
- Occurrence of Number Three.
- The Wild Grapes.
- The Corn.
- Celtic Legends.
- Correspondence with actual Facts.
- IV. SKRÆLINGS
- Testimony of the Íslendíngabók.
- The Skræling Canoes.
- The Skræling Food.
- Personal Appearance.
- The Waving Staves.
- Trading and Fighting.
- The Markland Skrælings.
- Hvítramannaland.
- V. THE ‘DÆGR’ AND ‘EYKTARSTAD’ QUESTIONS
- The ‘eyktarstad’ problem.
- VI. THE VOYAGES. GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS
- Difficulties of the Task.
- The Cardinal Points.
- The Labrador Theory.
- Storm’s theory—Labrador, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia.
- Theories including New England.
- Postscript on two recent theories.
- VII. THE VOYAGES IN DETAIL: BJARNI, LEIF, THORVALD
- Bjarni Herjulfson.
- Leif.
- Thorvald.
- VIII. KARLSEFNI’S EXPEDITION
- Date.
- Greenland to Helluland.
- Markland and Bjarney.
- Furdustrands.
- Mr. Babcock’s Theory.
- Cape Cod as Keelness.
- Straumsfjord.
- The Situation of Hóp.
- The Mountains at Hóp.
- IX. AFTERMATH AND CONCLUSION.
- Entries in the Annals.
- The New Land.
- The Hönen Runes.
- Voyage of Harald Haardraade.
- Ideas of Icelandic Geography.
- Early Maps.
- Conclusion.
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
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