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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Helluland. (search)
Helluland. Leif, the Northman, in a voyage from Greenland to Vinland, about the year 1000, discovered a country covered with rocks, which he named Helluland, slate land, supposed to be Labrador or Newfoundland.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Northmen, the (search)
another, still farther south, abounding in grapes, which he named Vinland, supposed to have been Massachusetts, in the vicinity of Boston. Lief and his crew built huts and wintered in Vinland, and returned to Greenland in the spring, his vessel loaded with timber. Thorwald, Lief's brother, went to Vinland with thirty men in 1002, and wintered there in the vicinity of Mount Hope Bay, R. I., it is supposed. The next yrned to Greenland. Thorstein, a younger son of Eric, sailed for Vinland with twenty-five companions and his young wife, Gudrida, whom he hns (five of them young married women), sailed, in three ships, 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 Alb on a pilgrimage to Rome. Icelandic manuscripts mention visits to Vinland in 1125, 1135, and 1147. About 1390 Nicolo Zeno (q. v.), a Veneti
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Thorfinn (search)
Thorfinn Scandinavian navigator; born in Norway; sailed from Norway to Greenland with two vessels in 1006. In the same year he organized an expedition to sail for Vinland, which consisted of 160 men and women and three vessels. They were driven by wind and current to what is probably Newfoundland. They next reached Nova Scotia, and in looking for the grave of Thorvald (q. v.) are supposed to have sailed along the coast of New England. After passing Cape Cod two scouts were landed, who spent three days searching the country to the southwest, and then returned, bringing some ears of wheat and bunches of grapes. They spent the winter at what is either Nantucket or Martha's Vineyard, where they constructed booths, and during the spring cultivated the land and explored the country. Thorfinn then sailed for what is probably Mount Hope Bay and there founded a settlement. Here they first met the Eskimos, who then inhabited the country, and carried on a considerable trade with them
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, A book of American explorers, chapter 1 (search)
gends are mainly correct; and that the region described as Vinland was a part of the North-American Continent. Beyond this wLeif gave a name to the land after its sort, and called it Vinland (Wine-Land). They sailed then afterwards into the sea, andald, Thou shalt go with my ship, brother, if thou wilt, to Vinland. There has been much difference of opinion as to where Vinland was. Some think that it was Nantucket; others, the island of Conanicut in Narragansett Bay; and others, some place muorical Society. IV.—Thorvald, Leif's brother, goes to Vinland. Now Thorvald made ready for this voyage with thirty me there is nothing told of their voyage before they came to Vinland, to Leif's booths; and they laid up their ship, and dwelt persuaded to bring a colony of sixty men and five women to Vinland.] This agreement made Karlsefni and his seamen, that there if they might. Karlsefni begged Leif for his house in Vinland; but he said he would lend him the house, but not give it.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, A book of American explorers, Index. (search)
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