Chambers's Papers for the People (Volume 6) (Paperback)


This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1850. Excerpt: ... PRE-COLUMBIAN DISCOVERY OF AMERICA. UPWARDS of two hundred years the glorious epithet of World-Discoverer had been attached to the name of Christopher Columbus, before it was known that the eye of any inhabitant of the old world had prior to his gazed upon any part of the wide regions which his genius laid open to its enterprise. It was at the commencement of the eighteenth century that Thorfseus, a learned Norwegian antiquary, while searching those inestimable treasuries of ancient lore, the Icelandic Sagas, in quest of materials for the history of Greenland, came upon proofs not only of the early colonisation of this northernmost point of the habitable globe by the Scandinavians, but also of the discovery of the American continent by these adventurous colonists in the tenth century. Thorfaeus made the interesting fact known in a Latin treatise, which did not fail to awaken the attention of Scandinavian antiquaries and historians, several of whom have treated of the subject in the scientific journals of their respective countries, or in larger historical works; but only very few copies of Thorfseus's essay (which has now become a literary rarity even in the north) ever passed the limits of Scandinavia; and as the literature of that region has hitherto in a great measure been a dead letter to the rest of the world, the pre-Columbian discovery of America by the Northmen remained, until a very recent date, an unknown fact to the general public of Europe and America. Twelve years ago, Professor Rafih, a distinguished Danish antiquary, desiring to make the subject more generally known, and being aided by the Royal Society of Northern Antiquaries, published a volume embracing every portion of ancient Icelandic literature bearing upon the discovery, together wi...

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1850. Excerpt: ... PRE-COLUMBIAN DISCOVERY OF AMERICA. UPWARDS of two hundred years the glorious epithet of World-Discoverer had been attached to the name of Christopher Columbus, before it was known that the eye of any inhabitant of the old world had prior to his gazed upon any part of the wide regions which his genius laid open to its enterprise. It was at the commencement of the eighteenth century that Thorfseus, a learned Norwegian antiquary, while searching those inestimable treasuries of ancient lore, the Icelandic Sagas, in quest of materials for the history of Greenland, came upon proofs not only of the early colonisation of this northernmost point of the habitable globe by the Scandinavians, but also of the discovery of the American continent by these adventurous colonists in the tenth century. Thorfaeus made the interesting fact known in a Latin treatise, which did not fail to awaken the attention of Scandinavian antiquaries and historians, several of whom have treated of the subject in the scientific journals of their respective countries, or in larger historical works; but only very few copies of Thorfseus's essay (which has now become a literary rarity even in the north) ever passed the limits of Scandinavia; and as the literature of that region has hitherto in a great measure been a dead letter to the rest of the world, the pre-Columbian discovery of America by the Northmen remained, until a very recent date, an unknown fact to the general public of Europe and America. Twelve years ago, Professor Rafih, a distinguished Danish antiquary, desiring to make the subject more generally known, and being aided by the Royal Society of Northern Antiquaries, published a volume embracing every portion of ancient Icelandic literature bearing upon the discovery, together wi...

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General Books LLC

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United States

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February 2012

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February 2012

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246 x 189 x 8mm (L x W x T)

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Paperback - Trade

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142

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978-1-153-86588-3

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9781153865883

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1-153-86588-2



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