. King's handbook of Boston harbor. their denying this, he said, I am! I have an arrow under my arm,and this will be my death-blow. I now advise you to prepare for yourdeparture as soon as possible. But me you must take to that promontorywhere I thought to have made my abode. I was a prophet. For now 1shall dwell there forever. There you shall bury me, and plant there twocrosses, one at my head and one at my feet, and call the place Krossanei[the promontory of the crosses] for ali time coming. Thorwald, upon this,died; and his men did as he had ordered them. The place where they bu
. King's handbook of Boston harbor. their denying this, he said, I am! I have an arrow under my arm,and this will be my death-blow. I now advise you to prepare for yourdeparture as soon as possible. But me you must take to that promontorywhere I thought to have made my abode. I was a prophet. For now 1shall dwell there forever. There you shall bury me, and plant there twocrosses, one at my head and one at my feet, and call the place Krossanei[the promontory of the crosses] for ali time coming. Thorwald, upon this,died; and his men did as he had ordered them. The place where they buried him, and erected the crosses, must havebeen one of the headlands not far south of Cape Ann. It is known that itwas near the harbor of Boston; and the only question at issue is, whether itwas Point Allerton or the Gurnet (near Plymouth). De Costa, Dr. Kohl,Guillot, and others, favor Allerton. It was surely a worthy burial-placefor a Scandinavian viking, — this noble and lonely height,— Islanded in the immeasurable air. ^—. /;;?, gfe .*? 1 A ti :%^\ \ 7i^>?Bjfe- - ,- The Norsemens Galley. KINGS HANDBOOK OF BOSTON HARBOR. 55
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