A popular history of the United States : from the first discovery of the western hemisphere by the Northmen, to the end of the first century of the union of the states ; preceded by a sketch of the prehistoric period and the age of the mound builders . sta —Pre-Columbian Discovery in America — gives the precedence to Gardar; while Crantz —History of Greenland—who cites as his authority the learned Icelander, Arngrim Jonas/*says Naddok (Naddod) was first driven on the coast by a storm, and that he was followed by a certain pyrate whose name was. Flokko/ and omits any mention whatever of Gar-dar
A popular history of the United States : from the first discovery of the western hemisphere by the Northmen, to the end of the first century of the union of the states ; preceded by a sketch of the prehistoric period and the age of the mound builders . sta —Pre-Columbian Discovery in America — gives the precedence to Gardar; while Crantz —History of Greenland—who cites as his authority the learned Icelander, Arngrim Jonas/*says Naddok (Naddod) was first driven on the coast by a storm, and that he was followed by a certain pyrate whose name was. Flokko/ and omits any mention whatever of Gar-dar. DISCOVERY OF ICELAND. 3T these he trusted to guide him to the land he sought. The first helet loose returned toward the islands of Faroe, which Flokko con-cluded, therefore, must still be the nearest land ; the second, sent outsome days later, returned to the vessel, which was accepted as a proofthat there was no land within a ravens flight; but the third, when letloose, circling into the air, turned its course at length steadily west-ward, and him Flokko followed, till he reached the island. For onewinter he and his colony lived there ; but his cattle all perished withcold. In the spring, when he would have sown seed, thick ice still. Flokko sending out Ravens. covered the coasts and rivers ; so when the summer came he sailedback to Norway, declaring that the land, which he called Island, —Iceland — was unfit for the habitation of either man or beast. Tenyears later, however, another colony was taken out from Norway bythe Earl Ingolf, who sought in Iceland a refuge from the tyranny ofKing Harold Haarfager, who no doubt was a despot, but whose offencein this case seems to have been some intolerant notions he held abouta manslaughter that Ingolf had committed. The attempt at coloniza-tion was this time successful, and a state was founded which for sev-eral centuries was the most remarkable community of that age for thesimplicity and freedom of its political institu
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