. Our country in story . -^ICELAND^Norsemen ATLANTIC^ BRITIS OCEAN. MAP OF NORSE VOYAGES Trading voyages between Greenland and Vinland be-came common and continued for many years. The lastrecord 01 a Norse ship going from Greenland to Vinlandfor timber is in 1347. Then an awful plague, called theBlack Death, ravaged the countries of the Northmen,sweeping off about one-third of the people. After thiswe hear no more of the hardy viking in North Americanwaters. The people of Europe did not, at that early date,know enough about geography to understand the impor-tance of Leif Ericsons discovery. An
. Our country in story . -^ICELAND^Norsemen ATLANTIC^ BRITIS OCEAN. MAP OF NORSE VOYAGES Trading voyages between Greenland and Vinland be-came common and continued for many years. The lastrecord 01 a Norse ship going from Greenland to Vinlandfor timber is in 1347. Then an awful plague, called theBlack Death, ravaged the countries of the Northmen,sweeping off about one-third of the people. After thiswe hear no more of the hardy viking in North Americanwaters. The people of Europe did not, at that early date,know enough about geography to understand the impor-tance of Leif Ericsons discovery. And gradually even A PATHWAY ACROSS THE ATLANTIC 19 the story of the Norse voyages to a distant westerncountry was quite forgotten, excepting that the peoplehad a vague sense of something done somewhere. Thissomething, however, is clearly and truly stated in theIcelandic sagas, which tell us that the Catholic Norwegian,Leif Ericson, with his Catholic Norse crew, was the firstof Europeans to set foot on the American continent. Such is, in short, the meaning of the b
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