A history of the United States . i^MIMTii hliaSlffiTSMiiSli III » I ?iiifMuTlilMl North Pueblo of Taos. 985. Fourteen years later, Leif, son of Eric the Eed, hav-ing introduced Christianity from Norway into Iceland and M^et Caam vctr-u le^Cetnks \^rm w&. Specimen of Saga Manuscript. Greenland, visited the newly discovered land, with thirty-fivecompanions. They wintered in a country which, from its DISCOVERY. i:§4. The DiGHTON Rock in Massachusetts, loug supijosed to bear an inscrip-tidii left by the Northmen. The figures are now kuov/n to be Indianhieroglyphics. abundance of wild grape vines,
A history of the United States . i^MIMTii hliaSlffiTSMiiSli III » I ?iiifMuTlilMl North Pueblo of Taos. 985. Fourteen years later, Leif, son of Eric the Eed, hav-ing introduced Christianity from Norway into Iceland and M^et Caam vctr-u le^Cetnks \^rm w&. Specimen of Saga Manuscript. Greenland, visited the newly discovered land, with thirty-fivecompanions. They wintered in a country which, from its DISCOVERY. i:§4. The DiGHTON Rock in Massachusetts, loug supijosed to bear an inscrip-tidii left by the Northmen. The figures are now kuov/n to be Indianhieroglyphics. abundance of wild grape vines, they called Vinland, builtsome houses, and then returned to GIreenland with a cargo of timber. Several othervoyages were madethither and a temporarycolony was established,the latest mention ofa voyage dating fromabout the middle ofthe fourteenth cen-tury. Such is the storyof the Sagas. The mainfeatures of the accountare generally held tobe correct, but the loca-tion of the NorthmensVinland cannot be de-termined, and no archae-ological remains havebeen found on the American continent to corroborate the Sagas.^ 1 The remains of the old mill at Newport, Rhode Island, and certain inscrip-tions have at one time and another been held to date from the visits of theNorthmen; but archaeologists have not assented to these views.
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