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Browsing named entities in a specific section of Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing). Search the whole document.
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Iceland (Iceland) (search for this): entry northmen-the
Newfoundland (Canada) (search for this): entry northmen-the
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Denmark (Denmark) (search for this): entry northmen-the
Northmen, the
The Scandinavians ——inhabitants of Denmark, Norway, 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 for Vinland, to plant a colony.
They landed, it is supposed, in Rhode Island.
Thorfinn remained in Vinland about three years, where Gudrida gave birth to a son, whom they named Snorre, who became the progenitor of Albert Thorwaldsen, the great Danish sculptor.
Returning to Iceland, Thorfinn died there, and his widow and her son went, in turn, on a pilgrimage to Rome.
Icelandic manuscripts mention visits to Vinland in 1125, 1135, and 1147.
About 1390 Nicolo Zeno (q. v.), a Venetian, visited<
Newport (Rhode Island, United States) (search for this): entry northmen-the
Rhode Island (Rhode Island, United States) (search for this): entry northmen-the
North America (search for this): entry northmen-the
Northmen, the
The Scandinavians ——inhabitants of Denmark, Norway, 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 Labrador.
He explored the shores southward to a more genial climate and a well-wooded country, supposed to have been Nova Scotia, and then to another, still farther south, abounding in grapes, which he named Vinland, supposed to have been Massachusetts, in the vicini<
Sweden (Sweden) (search for this): entry northmen-the
Northmen, the
The Scandinavians ——inhabitants of Denmark, Norway, 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 Labrador.
He explored the shores southward to a more genial climate and a well-wooded country, supposed to have been Nova Scotia, and then to another, still farther south, abounding in grapes, which he named Vinland, supposed to have been Massachusetts, in the vicinit<