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re. He makes the assertion that corn also grows in Vinland without cultivation; and, thinking this may seem strange to European readers, he adds that his statement is based upon trustworthy reports of the Danes. The great work of Professor Charles Christian Rafn, of Copenhagen, Antiquitates Americanae, published in 1837, first brought these Icelandic sagas prominently before modern scholars. Professor Rafn's work was most elaborate and thorough, and very little in the way of new material haProfessor Rafn's work was most elaborate and thorough, and very little in the way of new material has been given us since his time, although his theories and the general subject of the Northmen's voyages and the Rock at Dighton, Mass., bearing a supposed Viking inscription. whereabouts of Vinland have been discussed in numberless volumes during the fifty years since he wrote. Perhaps the most valuable work is that by Arthur Middleton Reeves. The title of Mr. Reeves's work is The finding of Wineland the good: the history of the Icelandic discovery of America (London, 1890). This work cont