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The finding of Wineland the Good; the history of the Icelandic discovery of America. / Edited and translated from the earliest records by Arthur Middleton Reeves. To which is added biography and correspondence of the author, by W. D. Foulke.
LIBRA E105 .R33 1967
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Reeves, Arthur Middleton, 1856-1891, editor, translator.
- Series:
- Burt Franklin research & source work series ; 100.
- Burt Franklin research & source work series, 100
- Language:
- English
- Icelandic
- Undetermined
- Subjects (All):
- Manuscripts, Old Norse.
- America--Discovery and exploration--Norse.
- America.
- Discoveries in geography.
- Genre:
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- lxxii, 205 pages : facsimiles, portrait ; 26 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : B. Franklin, [1967?]
- Contents:
- Biography and correspondence of A. M. Reeves.
- Introductory.
- Early fragmentary references to Wineland.
- The saga of Eric the Red.
- The Wineland history of the Flatey book.
- Wineland in the Icelandic annals.
- Notices of doubtful value; fictions.
- The publication of the discovery.
- The Icelandic texts: Hauksbók; orfinns saga Karlsefinis. AM 557, 4to; Eiríks saga Rauda. Flateyjarbók: Eiríks áttr Rauda. Groenlendinga áttr.
- Notes.
- Notes:
- The facsims. of the MSS. are accompanied by a line by line transcription of the texts in modern Icelandic.
- Reprint of the 1895 ed.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- OCLC:
- 1843345
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