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Voyages of the Northmen to America. Including extracts from Icelandic sagas relating to western voyages by Northmen in the tenth and eleventh centuries, in an English translation by North Ludlow Beamish; with a synopsis of the historical evidence and the opinion of Professor Rafn as to the places visited by the Scandinavians on the coast of America. / Ed. with an introduction by the Rev. Edmund F. Slafter, A. M.
LIBRA E186 .P85 v.10
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Slafter, Edmund F. (Edmund Farwell), 1816-1906, editor.
- Series:
- Publications of the Prince Society ; v.10.
- Prince Society, Boston. Publications ; [v. 10]
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- America--Discovery and exploration--Norse.
- America.
- Discoveries in geography.
- Physical Description:
- 162 pages : frontispiece, maps, diagrams ; 22 x 18 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Printed for the Prince society, 1877.
- Notes:
- "Ten copies, large paper. Two hundred copies, small paper."
- The translations are from "The discovery of America by the Northmen" by Beamish, largely taken from Rafn's "Antiquitates Americanae."
- "Concerning Erik the Red": p. [23]-43. "Saga of Thorfinn Karlsefne": p. 45-69.
- Bibliography: pages [127]-140.
- OCLC:
- 16729373
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