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Antiquitates Americanae, sive, Scriptores septentrionales rerum ante-Columbianarum in America = Samling af de i nordens oldskrifter indeholdte efterretninger om de gamle Nordboers opdagelsesreiser til America fra det 10de til det 14de aarhundrede / edidit Societas Regia Antiquariorum Septentrionalium.
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- Danish
- English
- Icelandic
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- America--Discovery and exploration--Pre-Columbian.
- America.
- America--Discovery and exploration--Norse.
- America--Antiquities.
- Greenland--Discovery and exploration.
- Greenland.
- Iceland--Discovery and exploration.
- Iceland.
- Massachusetts--Antiquities.
- Massachusetts.
- Rhode Island--Antiquities.
- Rhode Island.
- Antiquities.
- Discoveries in geography.
- Discoveries in geography--Norse.
- Discoveries in geography--Pre-Columbian.
- Physical Description:
- xliv, 479, [7] pages, 22 unnumbered leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations, maps, color facsimiles ; 33 cm
- Other Title:
- Antiquitates Americanae
- Scriptores septentrionales rerum ante-Columbianarum in America
- Antiqvitates Americanae
- Samling af de i nordens oldskrifter indeholdte efterretninger om de gamle Nordboers opdagelsesreiser til America fra det 10de til det 14de aarhundrede
- Place of Publication:
- Hafniae : Typis officinae Schultzianae, 1837.
- Language Note:
- Preface in Danish and Latin parallel texts; texts of the sagas are in Icelandic, Danish, and Latin.
- Contents:
- Introductio.
- Conspectus codicum membraneorum, in quibus terrarum americanarum mentio fit.
- America discovered by the Scandinavians in the tenth century [by C.C. Rafn]
- P̂aettir af Eireki Rauda ok Graenlendingum.
- Saga P̃orfinns Karlsefnis ok Snorra P̃orbrandssonar.
- De inhabitatione Islandiae.
- De inhabitatione Groenlandiae.
- De Ario Maris filio.
- De Björne Breidvikensium Athleta.
- De Gudleivo Gudloegi filio.
- Excerpta ex annalibus Islandorum.
- De Mansione Groenlandorum in locis borealibus.
- Excerpta e geographicis scriptis veterum Islandorum.
- Carmen faeröicum, in quo Vinlandiae mentio fit.
- Adami Bremensis relatio de Vinlandia.
- Descriptio quorundam monumentorum europaeorum, quae in oris Grönlandiae occidentalibis reperta et detecta sunt.
- Descriptio vetusti monumenti in regione Massachusetts reperti.
- Descriptio vetustorum quorundam monumentorum in Rhode Island.
- Annotationes geographicae.
- Notes:
- Compiled by C.C. Rafn.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Antiquitates Americanae, sive, Scriptores septentrionales rerum ante-Columbianarum in America.
- OCLC:
- 2190500
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