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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), America, discoverers of. (search)
America, discoverers of.
About the year 860 Noddodr, an illustrious se(arover, driven by a storm.
discovered Iceland, and named it Snowland.
Not many years afterwards Earl Ingolf, of Norway, sought Iceland as a refute from tyranny.
and planted a colony there.
Greenland was discovered by accident.
One of the early settlers in Iceland was driven westward on the sea by a storm, and discovered Greenland.
To that retreat Eric the Red was compelled to fly from Iceland, and, finding it more fertile than the latter.
named it Greenland, made it his place of abode, and attracted other Northmen thither.
Among Eric's followers was a Norwegian, whose son Bjarni, or Biarne, a promising young man, trading between Norway and Iceland, and finding his father gone with Eric, proposed to his crew to go to his parent in Greenland.
They were driven westward, and, it is believed, they saw the American continent in the year 986.
The sons of Eric heard the stories of Bjarni, and one of them, Lie
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Andrews , Christopher Columbus , 1829 - (search)
Andrews, Christopher Columbus, 1829-
Lawyer and diplomatist; born in Hillsboro, N. H., Oct. 27, 1829; was educated at the Harvard Law School; admitted to the Massachusetts bar in 1850, and later settled in St. Cloud, Minn. In the Civil War he rose from the ranks to brevet major-general in the Union army.
In 1869-77 he was United States minister to Norway and Sweden, and in 1882-85 consul-general to Rio de Janeiro.
He has published a History of the campaign of Mobile; Brazil. Its conditions and prospects; Administrative reform, etc.
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Larsen, Laur 1833-
Educator; born in Christiansand, Norway, Aug. 10, 1833; graduated at the University of Christiania in 1850, and at its theological department in 1855, and entered the ministry of the Lutheran Church.
He was minister in Pierce county, Wis., in 1857-59; Norwegian Professor of Concordia College and Seminary, St. Louis, in 1859-61; president of the Norwegian Lutheran College since 1861; vice-president of the Norwegian Lutheran Synod in 1876-93; vice-president of the Synodical Conference in 1879-82, and acting president part of the time; and editor of the church paper of the Norwegian Lutheran Synod in 1868-69.