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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), America, discoverers of. (search)
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 tEric, 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, Lief, sailed in search of the newly discovered land, and founEric heard the stories of Bjarni, and one of them, Lief, sailed in search of the newly discovered land, and found it. While there continues to be much doubt concerning the authenticity of claims put forth in behalf of extremely early, discoverers, there are unquestioned historical records of America for the space of over 500 years. It was undoubtedly discov
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Elizabeth, Queen of England (search)
e she was seventeen years of age she was mistress of the Latin, French, and Italian languages, and had read several works in Greek. By education she was attached to the Protestant Church, and was persecuted by her half-sister, Mary, who was a Roman Catholic. Elizabeth never married. When quite young her father negotiated for her nuptials with the son of Francis I. of France, but it failed. She flirted awhile with the ambitious Lord Seymour. In 1558 she declined an offer of marriage from Eric, King of Sweden, and also from Philip of Spain. Her sister Mary died Nov. 17, 1558, when Elizabeth was proclaimed Queen of England. With caution she proceeded to restore the Protestant religion to ascendency in her kingdom. Her reform began by ordering a large part of the church service to be read in English, and forbade the elevation of the host in her presence. Of the Roman Catholic bishops, only one consented to officiate at her coronation. In 1559 Parliament passed a bill which vest
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Northmen, the (search)
, and Sweden—were called Northmen. They were famous navigators, and, in the ninth century, discovered Iceland and Greenland. In the tenth century a colony led by Eric the Red was planted in the latter country (983). It is said that an adventurer named Bjarni discovered the mainland of North America in the tenth century (986). These people were chiefly from Norway, and kept up communication with the parent country. According to an Icelandic chronicle, Captain Lief, son of Eric the Red, sailed in a little Norwegian vessel (1001), with thirty-five men, to follow up the discovery of Bjarni, and was driven by gales to a rugged coast, supposed to have been Lastward, and was killed in a skirmish with the natives (see Skraelings), and the following year his companions returned to Greenland. Thorstein, a younger son of Eric, sailed for Vinland with twenty-five companions and his young wife, Gudrida, whom he had married only a few weeks before. Adverse winds drove the little vessel on
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
Iceland discovered by Nadodd, a Norse rover......861 First settlement by Norsemen......875 Grumbiorn sights a western land......876 Land discovered by Eric the Red, and named Greenland......982 Second voyage from Iceland to Greenland by Eric......985 Bjarni sails from Iceland for Greenland, but is driven south bEric......985 Bjarni sails from Iceland for Greenland, but is driven south by a storm and sights land at Cape Cod or Nantucket, also at Newfoundland, and returns to Greenland......985 Voyage of Lief, son of Eric the Red. He sails in one ship with thirty-five men in search of the land seen by Bjarni......1000 Touching the Labrador coast, stops near Boston, Mass., or farther south, for the winter. HeEric the Red. He sails in one ship with thirty-five men in search of the land seen by Bjarni......1000 Touching the Labrador coast, stops near Boston, Mass., or farther south, for the winter. He loads his vessel with timber; he returns to Greenland in the spring of......1001 [He calls the land Vinland, from its grapes.] Thorwald, Lief's brother, visits Vinland in 1002, and winters near Mount Hope Bay, R. I. In the spring of 1003 he sent a party of his men to explore the coast, perhaps as far south as Cape May. T
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Vinland (search)
See Northmen in America. The famous Saga of Eric the Red, which gives the original accounts of t The voyages to Vinland. From the saga of Eric the Red. Translated by Arthur Middleton Reeves.sixteen winters had elapsed, from the time when Eric the Red went to colonize Greenland, Leif, Eric'Eric's son, sailed Ancient Viking ship out from Greenland to Norway. He arrived in Drontheim in the ay [his father] Heriulf determined to accompany Eric on his voyage to Greenland, and made his prepark about voyages of discovery. Leif, the son of Eric the Red, of Brattahlid, visited Biarni Heriulny of thirty-five men. Leif invited his father, Eric, to become the leader of the expedition, but Ere who would be most apt to bring good luck, and Eric yielded to Leif's solicitation, and rode from hy name? Leif gave his name. Art thou a son of Eric the Red of Brattahlid? says he. Leif respondedat time Christianity had obtained in Greenland: Eric the Red died, however, before [the introduction[5 more...]