. Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning. ICELANDIC TYPES AND COSTUMES. the adventures of Eric the Red, of Her-julfson, of Leif Ericsson, of Thorwald,of Thorstein, of Thorfinn Karlsefne,and of all the other seafarers whoplanted in Massachusetts and RhodeIsland what might have become a NorseAmerica
. Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning. ICELANDIC TYPES AND COSTUMES. the adventures of Eric the Red, of Her-julfson, of Leif Ericsson, of Thorwald,of Thorstein, of Thorfinn Karlsefne,and of all the other seafarers whoplanted in Massachusetts and RhodeIsland what might have become a NorseAmerica. The plague fell on NorthernEurope; a large part of the populationwas swept away, and the New Worldwas left to Spain and England. 50 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. Chapter :kcii.—The T is probable that theethnography of thefuture will be moreelaborate, painstaking,and accurate than thatof the present. Linesof demarkation will bediscovered between different peopleswdio at the present time are classifiedtogether and counted as one. Such adivision may at length be passed be-tween Norway and Iceland, leaving thepeople of the latter island as the onlytrue representatives of the old Norsestock. We have already indicated ourGeographical belief that this is the ex-ration^s^ofthe^^ trcmc primary departureNorse peoples, of the Tcutouic race to theAVest; in other words, that the Nor-wegians are more Germanic and lessNorse than the people of Iceland, justas the people of Sweden are more Danishand German than they are this may be, it is still in ac-cordance with the canons of ethnic criti-cism to classify the Norwegians and theNorsefolk of Iceland together. We willregard the latter people as thrown at anearly period to a greater distance to theWest and to a m
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