Preface : * "The Norse Discovery of America", by A.M Reeves, N.L. Beamish and R.B. Anderson, [1906], p. ix PREFACE. In this work is brought together for the first time the interpretation of the best authorities respecting the evidences, historical, archaeologic, inscriptive and deductive, of Norse discovery...
Book Ii. Icelandic Records. Arguments : * "The Norse Discovery of America", by A.M Reeves, N.L. Beamish and R.B. Anderson, [1906], p. 148 BOOK II. BY NORTH LUDLOW BEAMISH. ARGUMENTS and evidences respecting the claim that America was discovered by Norsemen about A. D. 1000, and colonized about A. D. 1003, with proofs submitted...
Book Iii. The Norsemen In America. Chapter. Part 04 : * "The Norse Discovery of America", by A.M Reeves, N.L. Beamish and R.B. Anderson, [1906], p. 295 THE NORSEMEN IN AMERICA. BY RASMUS B. ANDERSON, LL. D. CHAPTER I. NORUMBEGA. THE early discovery of this country by the Norsemen is of interest to every American. It is the first coming of Europeans...
Title Page : * "The Norse Discovery of America", by A.M Reeves, N.L. Beamish and R.B. Anderson, [1906], THE NORSE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA A Compilation In Extenso Of All The Sagas, Manuscripts, And Inscriptive Memorials Relating To The Finding And Settlement Of The New World In The Eleventh Century. With...
Book Ii. Icelandic Records. Second Period : * "The Norse Discovery of America", by A.M Reeves, N.L. Beamish and R.B. Anderson, [1906], p. 162 SECOND PERIOD. WE have thus seen how the desire to tell of old times arose and was propagated amongst the inhabitants of the new colony. But the remembrance and relation of individual exploits...
Book Ii. Icelandic Records. Introducti : * "The Norse Discovery of America", by A.M Reeves, N.L. Beamish and R.B. Anderson, [1906], p. 149 INTRODUCTION TO A STUDY OF ICELANDIC RECORDS. BY N. L. BEAMISH. SKETCH OF THE RISE, EMINENCE, AND EXTINCTION OF ICELANDIC HISTORICAL LITERATURE THE national literature of Iceland holds a distinct...
Book Ii. Icelandic Records. Monuments : * "The Norse Discovery of America", by A.M Reeves, N.L. Beamish and R.B. Anderson, [1906], MONUMENTS AND INSCRIPTIONS. THE DIGHTON WRITING ROCK. Some remarkable monuments and inscriptions have been found on the eastern shores of North America, which bear testimony to the voyages and settlements...
Book Ii. Icelandic Records. Last Period : * "The Norse Discovery of America", by A.M Reeves, N.L. Beamish and R.B. Anderson, [1906], LAST PERIOD. We have now seen how Icelandic historical literature, after having blossomed and borne good fruit, began at last to wither and decay; and the cause of its origin and bloom leads us also...
Book Iii. The Norsemen In America. Chapter. Part 03 : * "The Norse Discovery of America", by A.M Reeves, N.L. Beamish and R.B. Anderson, [1906], CHAPTER II. NORSE VOYAGES IN THE TENTH AND FOLLOWING CENTURIES. IF we go back to the middle of the ninth century we find what is now Norway divided into thirty odd districts, called fylkes, and governed by...
Book I. Arguments And Proofs That Support : * "The Norse Discovery of America", by A.M Reeves, N.L. Beamish and R.B. Anderson, [1906], p. 128 NOTES. (1) It has been claimed that the Icelandic discovery attained a practical result through the imparting of information to those to whom the discovery of America has been generally ascribed...
Book Ii. Icelandic Records. Saga Of Thorfinn : * "The Norse Discovery of America", by A.M Reeves, N.L. Beamish and R.B. Anderson, [1906], p. 214 SAGA OF THORFINN KARLSEFNE. NEXT in importance and interest to the Saga of Erik the Red, is that of Thorfinn, with the significant surname of Karlsefne, "i. e.", destined to become a great man. This...
List Of Photogravures : * "The Norse Discovery of America", by A.M Reeves, N.L. Beamish and R.B. Anderson, [1906], p. iii LIST OF PHOTOGRAVURES. (NORSE DISCOVERIES IN AMERICA.) Frontispiece--Leif Erikson Discovers a New World. "PLATES AND MAPS
Book I. Arguments And Proofs That Support. Part 05 : * "The Norse Discovery of America", by A.M Reeves, N.L. Beamish and R.B. Anderson, [1906], p. 74 CHAPTER IV. A BRIEF HISTORY OF ERIC THE RED. There was a man named Thorvald, a son of Osvald, Ulf's son, Eyxna-Thori's son. Thorvald and Eric the Red, his son, left Jaederen [in Norway], on account...
Book Ii. Icelandic Records. Minor Narratives : * "The Norse Discovery of America", by A.M Reeves, N.L. Beamish and R.B. Anderson, [1906], MINOR NARRATIVES. A. FROM THE HISTORY OF KING OLAF TRYGGVASON. ACCORDING TO THE SECOND VELLUM CODEX, No. 61, Fol. Supposed to have been copied at the end of the 14"th or beginning of the "15"th Century"...
Book Ii. Icelandic Records. Saga Of Erik The Red : * "The Norse Discovery of America", by A.M Reeves, N.L. Beamish and R.B. Anderson, [1906], p. 191 SAGA OF ERIK THE RED. DISCOVERY AND COLONIZATION OF GREENLAND. A. D. 985. In presenting the historical evidences, and results that attended the independent investigations of Professors Reeves, Rafn...
Book I. Arguments And Proofs That Support. Part 07 : * "The Norse Discovery of America", by A.M Reeves, N.L. Beamish and R.B. Anderson, [1906], p. 16 CHAPTER II. THE SAGA OF ERIC THE RED THE clearest and most complete narrative of the discovery of Wineland, preserved in the ancient Icelandic literature, is that presented in the Saga of Eric the Red...
Book Ii. Icelandic Records. Voyage Of Gudleif : * "The Norse Discovery of America", by A.M Reeves, N.L. Beamish and R.B. Anderson, [1906], VOYAGE OF GUDLEIF GUDLAUGSON TO GREAT IRELAND. A. D. 1029. EYRBYGGJA SAGA, CAP. 64. VELLUM FRAGMENT, No. 4456, in 4to. "Collated with the before mentioned MSS". Gudleif hight a man; he was son of Gudlaug...
Book I. Arguments And Proofs That Support. Part 03 : * "The Norse Discovery of America", by A.M Reeves, N.L. Beamish and R.B. Anderson, [1906], p. 108 CHAPTER VI. NOTICES OF DOUBTFUL VALUE; FICTIONS. IT will be remembered that a passage in the Book of Settlement [Landnamabok] recites the discovery, by one Ari Marsson, of a country lying westward...
Book Ii. Icelandic Records. Voyage Of Leif Erikson : * "The Norse Discovery of America", by A.M Reeves, N.L. Beamish and R.B. Anderson, [1906], p. 200 VOYAGE OF LEIF ERIKSON. A. D. 1008. THE next thing now to be related is that Bjarne Herjulfson went out from Greenland and visited Erik Jarl, and the Jarl received him well. Bjarne told about his...
Book Ii. Icelandic Records. Geographical : * "The Norse Discovery of America", by A.M Reeves, N.L. Beamish and R.B. Anderson, [1906], p. 237 GEOGRAPHICAL NOTICES IN ANCIENT ICELANDIC MSS. B.--FRAGMENT OF VELLUM CODEX, No. 192. Supposed to have been written about the end of the 14th Century. NEXT to Denmark is the lesser Sweden, then is...
Book Ii. Icelandic Records. Third Period : * "The Norse Discovery of America", by A.M Reeves, N.L. Beamish and R.B. Anderson, [1906], THIRD PERIOD. It has thus been shewn how the materials for history had been collected in Iceland, and how these materials were moulded into the form of narrative by oral tradition; it now remains to be seen...
Book Ii. Icelandic Records. Voyage Of Freydis : * "The Norse Discovery of America", by A.M Reeves, N.L. Beamish and R.B. Anderson, [1906], VOYAGE OF FREYDIS, HELGI AND FINNBOGI. A. D. 1011. FREYDIS CAUSES THE BROTHERS TO BE KILLED. 1 Now began people again to talk about expeditions to Vinland, for voyages thereto appeared both profitable...
Book I. Arguments And Proofs That Support. Part 02 : * "The Norse Discovery of America", by A.M Reeves, N.L. Beamish and R.B. Anderson, [1906], p. 119 CHAPTER VII. THE PUBLICATION OF THE DISCOVERY THE earliest foreign mention of Wineland appears in the work of the prebendary, Adam of Bremen, called "Descriptio insularum aquilonis". The material...
Book I. Arguments And Proofs That Support. Part 06 : * "The Norse Discovery of America", by A.M Reeves, N.L. Beamish and R.B. Anderson, [1906], CHAPTER III. THE WINELAND HISTORY OF THE FLATEY BOOK THE Flatey Book [Flateyjarbok] is the most extensive and most perfect of Icelandic manuscripts. It is in itself a comprehensive historical library...
Book I. Arguments And Proofs That Support. Part 04 : * "The Norse Discovery of America", by A.M Reeves, N.L. Beamish and R.B. Anderson, [1906], p. 102 CHAPTER V. WINELAND IN THE ICELANDIC ANNALS. IN addition to the longer sagas of the discovery of Wineland, and the scattered references in other Icelandic historical literature, already adduced...
Book Iii. The Norsemen In America. Chapter : * "The Norse Discovery of America", by A.M Reeves, N.L. Beamish and R.B. Anderson, [1906], p. 337 CHAPTER IV. DISCOVERY OF AMERICA BY THE IRISH. IN the preceding chapter I intimated that the Irish have some claim to the honor of having discovered America before Columbus. It is a large subject...
Book I. Arguments And Proofs That Support. Part 08 : * "The Norse Discovery of America", by A.M Reeves, N.L. Beamish and R.B. Anderson, [1906], p. 1 ARGUMENTS AND PROOFS THAT SUPPORT THE CLAIM OF NORSE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA BY ARTHUR M. REEVES. CHAPTER I. EARLY FRAGMENTARY REFERENCES TO WINELAND. WINELAND the Good is first mentioned in Icelandic...
Introduction : * "The Norse Discovery of America", by A.M Reeves, N.L. Beamish and R.B. Anderson, [1906], p. xiii INTRODUCTION. THE Icelandic discovery of America was first announced, in print, more than two centuries and a half ago. Within the past fifty years of this period, the discovery has attracted more...
Book Iii. The Norsemen In America. Chapter. Part 02 : * "The Norse Discovery of America", by A.M Reeves, N.L. Beamish and R.B. Anderson, [1906], CHAPTER III. COLUMBUS AND THE NORSEMEN. THERE is no direct evidence on this subject, that is to say, there is no statement either by Columbus or by any one of his contemporaries that he possessed any...
