The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503

CONTENTS

Edited by Professor Julius E. Olson

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Introduction	3
The Saga of Eric the Red	14
The Ancestry of Gudrid	14
The Colonization of Greenland	15
Gudrid’s Father emigrates to Greenland	20
The Sibyl and the Famine in Greenland	21
Leif the Lucky and the Discovery of Vinland	23
Thorstein’s Attempt to find Vinland	26
The Marriage of Gudrid to Thorstein	27
The Ancestry of Thorfinn Karlsefni; his Marriage with Gudrid	30
Karlsefni’s Voyage to Vinland	31
The First Winter in Vinland	34
Description of Vinland and the Natives	36
The Uniped; Snorri; the Captured Natives	40
Biarni Grimolfson’s Self-sacrifice	42
Karlsefni and Gudrid’s Issue	43
The Vinland History of the Flat Island Book	45
Eric the Red and the Colonization of Greenland	45
Leif Ericson’s Baptism in Norway	47
Biarni Herjulfson sights New Land	48
Biarni’s visit to Norway	50
Leif’s Voyage of Exploration	50
The Discovery of Grapes	52
Thorvald’s Expedition to Vinland	54
Thorfinn Karlsefni’s Expedition to Vinland	59
The Expedition of Freydis and her Companions	62
Karlsefni and Gudrid return to Iceland	65
From Adam of Bremen’s Descriptio Insularum Aquilonis	67
From the Icelandic Annals	69
Annales Regii	69
From the Elder SkÁlholt Annals	69
Papal Letters Concerning the Bishopric of Gardar in Greenland During the Fifteenth Century	70
Letter of Nicholas V.	70
Letter of Alexander VI.	73

Edited by Professor Edward G. Bourne

Edited by Professor Edward G. Bourne

Introduction	421
Letter of Lorenzo Pasqualigo to his Brothers Alvise and Francesco, Merchants in Venice	423
The First Letter of Raimondo de Soncino, Agent of the Duke of Milan, to the Duke	424
The Second Letter of Raimondo de Soncino to the Duke of Milan	425
Despatch to Ferdinand and Isabella from Pedro de Ayala, Junior Ambassador at the Court of England, July 25, 1498	429

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