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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Holand, Hjalmar Rued, 1872-1963. Explorations in America before Columbus. New York : Twayne, c1956 (OCoLC)643554196 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Hjalmar Rued Holand |
| OCLC Number: | 21296569 |
| Description: | 381 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | The dawn of seafaring discovery -- The first pathfinder to the new world -- The discovery of America's mainland -- Leif Erikson discovers America -- Where was Leif Erikson's Vinland? -- America's first homesteader -- Thorfin Karlsevni sails to Vinland -- Identification of Thorfin Karlsevni's route -- The Norsemen fight with the Indians -- America visited 1047 -- A bishop goes to Vinland -- Norse explorations in the American Arctic -- The mass emigration to America in 1342 -- A royal expedition sails to America in 1355 -- The oldest native document of American history -- Mooring stones and camp sites -- Fourteenth century implements found in Minnesota -- The stone tower in Newport -- The purpose of the tower -- The measurements of the tower -- The identity of the men who built the tower -- Norumbega -- A lost inscription -- The earliest map of America -- Reminiscences of the Paul Knutson expedition -- The Norwegian-Portuguese expedition to America in 1476 -- The genesis of the Cabot and Columbus voyages -- Appendices: Linguistic aspects of the Kin Kensington Stone inscription -- The runic symbols -- Accusations against Ohman and Fogelblad. |
| Responsibility: | by Hjalmar R. Holand. |
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