. A popular history of the United States of America, from the aboriginal times to the present day. 1347 a Norwegian ship visited Labrador and the north-easternparts of the United States. The Norse remains which have beenfound at Newport, at GarnetPoint, and several otherplaces seem to point clearlyto some such events as arehere described; and the Ice-landic historians give a uni-form and tolerably consistentaccount of these early ex-ploits of their the word America ismentioned in the hearing ofthe Icelandic schoolboys, theywill at once answer, with en-thusiasm, Oh, yes; Lief Er
. A popular history of the United States of America, from the aboriginal times to the present day. 1347 a Norwegian ship visited Labrador and the north-easternparts of the United States. The Norse remains which have beenfound at Newport, at GarnetPoint, and several otherplaces seem to point clearlyto some such events as arehere described; and the Ice-landic historians give a uni-form and tolerably consistentaccount of these early ex-ploits of their the word America ismentioned in the hearing ofthe Icelandic schoolboys, theywill at once answer, with en-thusiasm, Oh, yes; Lief Er-ickson discovered that countryin the year 1001. An event is to beweighed by its the discovery of Amer-ica by the Norsemen, nothingwhatever resulted. Theworld was neither wiser nor better. Among the Icelanders themselvesthe place and the very name of Yinland were forgotten. Europenever heard of such a country or such a discovery. Historians haveuntil late years been incredulous on the subject, and the fact is asthough it had never been. The curtain which had been lifted for a. A NORSE SEA-KING OF THE ELEVENTH CENTURY. 54 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. moment was stretched again from sky to sea, and the New Worldstill lay hidden in the shadows. * CHAPTER DISCO VERIES IN AMERICA. IT was reserved for the people of a sunnier clime than Iceland first tomake known to the European nations the existence of a Western con-tinent. Spain -was the happy country under whose auspicious patronagea new world was to be added to the old; but the man who was destinedto make the revelation was not himself a Spaniard: he was to come fromgenial Italy, the land of olden valor and the home of so much Columbus was the name of that man whom after ageshave justly rewarded with imperishable fame. The idea that the world is round was not original with before him had held a similar belief; but the opinion had been sofeebly and uncertainly ent
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