This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Nao ilustrado. 1889 edition. Excerto: ...the only obscurity. In 1831 the missionary De Fries found near Igigeitum, in latitude 6o, a tombstone used as a door lintel to a Greenland house, with an inscription in Roman characters-- Her Hvilir Hro Kolgrims; which is, Here rests Hroar or Hroaldr Kolgrimson. But # the most interesting of these ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Nao ilustrado. 1889 edition. Excerto: ...the only obscurity. In 1831 the missionary De Fries found near Igigeitum, in latitude 6o, a tombstone used as a door lintel to a Greenland house, with an inscription in Roman characters-- Her Hvilir Hro Kolgrims; which is, Here rests Hroar or Hroaldr Kolgrimson. But # the most interesting of these inscriptions is one discovered in 1824, in the island Kingiktorsoak in Baffin's Bay, in latitude 72 55' north, longitude 56 5' west of Greenwich; as it shows how bold these Northmen have been in their seamanship, and how far they had penetrated into regions supposed to have been unvisited by man before the voyages of our modern navigators. It now appears that Captain Parry and Captain Lyon had only sailed over seas which had been explored by these Northmen in the twelfth century. The inscription found in this high latitude was sent to three of the greatest antiquaries and Runic scholars in Europe--Finn Magnusen, Professor Bask, and Dr. Bryniulfson in Iceland; and, without communication with each other, they arrived at the same interpretation, viz. Erling Sighvatson and Biarne Thordarson and Eindrid Oddson, on Saturday before Ascension Week, raised these marks and cleared ground, 1135. The meaning is, that in token of having taken possession of the land, they had raised marks or mounds of which Kragh and Stephenson observed some vestiges on the spot where the inscription was found, and had cleared a space of ground around, being a symbol of appropriation of the land. The interesting part of this inscription has not been sufficiently noticed and examined. In the Bomish church the days of the Ascension Week are of peculiar solemnity. The priests, accompanied by the people, walk in long processions with lighted torches around the churches and...
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