An American history . pes growing wild, andtherefore called the country Vinland.^ * It is not certainly known just what part of the coast Leif visited. Manystudents are convinced that his great bay was Boston harbor. There is amonument to Leif in the Fenway Park, Boston. AMERICAN HISTORY 10. The Norsemen in Vinland. The Norsemen attemptedto plant a colony in Vinland. We have record of at least oneman who was born there, a certain Snorre, from whom many persons in later years claimeddescent. The very beginningof the struggle between thewhite and red races to possessAmerica was a skirmish be-twe
An American history . pes growing wild, andtherefore called the country Vinland.^ * It is not certainly known just what part of the coast Leif visited. Manystudents are convinced that his great bay was Boston harbor. There is amonument to Leif in the Fenway Park, Boston. AMERICAN HISTORY 10. The Norsemen in Vinland. The Norsemen attemptedto plant a colony in Vinland. We have record of at least oneman who was born there, a certain Snorre, from whom many persons in later years claimeddescent. The very beginningof the struggle between thewhite and red races to possessAmerica was a skirmish be-tween Norsemen and Indians,in which the Norse leader wasshot dead by an Indian afterward a fierce attackby Indians drove the Norse-men to their ships. That wasthe end of the colony, but theGreenlanders did not forgetwhat Lcif had found, and longafterward they were still mak-ing voyages to Vinland fortimber. In time even theseceased. During many generations there seem to have beenno Europeans west of LEIF ERICSON STATUE, BOSTON III. THE ITALT\N EXPLORERS 11. The Vinland Tradition. In the countries of the farNorth people continued to talk of Vinland. In Iceland thestory of it was set down as part of Norse history. It wascarried eastward to the Orkney Islands. Two Italians ofnoble birth, the brothers Nicola and Antonio Zeno, heard thestory while visiting the Orkneys and resolved to explore theWest. The narrative left us by the Zenos tells of a visit toa great island in the West; of long wanderings in sea fog;of a western country which has not been identified; and ofexploring the coasts of Greenland. That is all we know ofthe earliest visit of the Italians to North America. THE PROLOGUE TO AMERICAN HISTORY 12. The Renaissance and Exploration. However, the timehad come when ItaHans were to outdo all other peoples inmaking voyages and discoveries. Italy was then in the midstof that great awakening which we call the Renaissance. Aftera long neglect of thought, Euro
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