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Explorations in America before Columbus by Hjalmar R. Holand
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks E 105 .H69 1956
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Holand, Hjalmar Rued, 1872-1963.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- America--Discovery and exploration--Norse.
- America.
- America--Discovery and exploration--Pre-Columbian.
- Physical Description:
- 381 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Twayne, c1956.
- Contents:
- The dawn of seafaring discovery
- The first pathfinder to the new world
- The discovery of America's mainland
- Leif Erikson discovers America
- Where was Leif Erikson's Vinland?
- America's first homesteader
- Thorfin Karlsevni sails to Vinland
- Identification of Thorfin Karlsevni's route
- The Norsemen fight with the Indians
- America visited 1047
- A bishop goes to Vinland
- Norse explorations in the American Arctic
- The mass emigration to America in 1342
- A royal expedition sails to America in 1355
- The oldest native document of American history
- Mooring stones and camp sites
- Fourteenth century implements found in Minnesota
- The stone tower in Newport
- The purpose of the tower
- The measurements of the tower
- The identity of the men who built the tower
- Norumbega
- A lost inscription
- The earliest map of America
- Reminiscences of the Paul Knutson expedition
- The Norwegian-Portuguese expedition to America in 1476
- The genesis of the Cabot and Columbus voyages
- Appendices: Linguistic aspects of the Kin Kensington Stone inscription
- The runic symbols
- Accusations against Ohman and Fogelblad.
- Notes:
- Bibliography: p. 365-373.
- Local Notes:
- The Indian Rights Association Complementary Collection.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Holand, Hjalmar Rued, 1872-1963. Explorations in America before Columbus.
- OCLC:
- 21296569
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