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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.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Slafter, Edmund F. (Edmund Farwell), 1816-1906, editor.
- Series:
- Publications of the Prince Society ; v. 10.
- Publications of the Prince Society ; 10
- Burt Franklin research and source works series ; #131. American classics in history and social science ; #2
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- America--Discovery and exploration--Norse.
- America.
- Discoveries in geography.
- Physical Description:
- 162 pages : maps. ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : B. Franklin, [1971]
- Notes:
- 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:
- 348068
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