Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 46, Number 311, 11 November 1921 — Page 16

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, RICHMOND, IND., FRIDAY, NOV. 11, 1921.

GAPE GOD EXPLORED NINE CENTURIES AGO; RICHMOND MAN GOLL ECTS ICELANDIC SAGAS

Cdllnr'a Nolf-The la Arthur M. Hrryrm, a former rcldr of thi I'lty, was an authority on Icelandic lorr and Hn. Ills book was t-rptcd an a diatlnrt contribution to the undrmtandina; of this lltrrnlurr. The Ilonton Herald recently

printed the following! , In this tercentenary year Cape Cod looms large in the thoughts of all thej people. The interest in early New England is widespread and many desire to see the beauty of the coast and feel if they may find the lure that has drawn men here. The lure is nothing new for the early explorers who were drawn to Cape Cod as by a magnet, and 900 years ago this summer in far off Iceland men were saying it would he well to visit the strange land that Lief the Lucky had found and named Wineland the Good, even as a resident of the far west is planning for the present summer a visit to the home of the Pilgrims. For 300 years the world at large has known that there were Icelandic sagas which gave an account of voyages to Wineland the Good. In 1887 Carl Christian Kafn published a book in which he gave these sagas. His

real in promulgating the discovery

led him to jumble the facts in such

age of the cargo, which, when the

ship was laden, was protected by skins or some similar substitute for tarpaulins. The vessel was provided with a single mast, and was propelled

by a rude square sail, and was supplied with oars. The rudder was attached to the side of the ship, upon

the starboard Quarter, and the an

chor, originally of stone, was after

ward supplanted by one of iron, somewhat similar in form to those now in

use. Tuxen, reasoning from a comparison of a vessel of this size with the ship unearthed at the farm of Gokstad, north of Sandefiord, Norway, in 1880, concludes that such a "knoor" would have been somewhat over 42 feet long, witu a breadth of beam of

become a mother, and in the fall she , gave birth to a son, the first white child born in America. They named him Snorri, after his grandfather. He lived and thrived and was nearly three years old when he first saw Iceland. According to the old sagas a

large number of the bishops and other high church dignitaries of Iceland claimed descent from Snorri Karlsefni's Wineland born son. Whatever determined their decision they experienced the usual Maine winter. It was cold and shore ice formed so that they could not fish. Food was scarce for a time, but firstly the weather broke and they were able to catch fish enough to supply their wants. During the time food was scarce they found a stranded whale and tried

eating whale meat, but it made them sick. After their experience on the Maine coast Karlsefni decided to go farther south, and accordingly set sail. How far they went we do not know, but it was evidently south of Cape Cod that

they spent the second winter. The

JILL KJLAfS,t I I 1-1 C Ui Vau 111 V w - . from 16 to 18 feet." It can be readily only landmark given is "They sailed

seen that two such vessels could not

carry as much furniture as is claimed to have been brought over in the Mayflower. Discovered Maine Coast. Early in the spring they sailed, and they soon came to a land covered with flat stones, which they called Hellurland. They next came to a well wood-

way as to throw doubt upon their led land, which they called Markland.

TW then aailoil several rtavs ana

came to a lone sandy shore, which

they named Wonderstrand.

American, Arthur Middleton Reeve3, to bring order out of chaos and give the sagas in such a way as to establish their historical value. He visited Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Iceland and has access to all the known copies of the sagas. His book was published by the Oxford University Press and in it he gives the first presentation of the Icelandic sagas of Wineland the Good. Lief Comes to Wineland Briefly, the historical facts contained in these sagas are that Lief Thorvaldsson, son of Eric the Red, while on a voyage from Norway to Iceland, in the year 9S8 or 999, was driven out Of his course and was blown about a frood part of the summer. He landed in a strange country and he wa3 so favorably impressed with it that he

named it Wineland the Good, because of the abundance of grapes he found growing there. In the fall he made his way back to Iceland and on the voyage he picked up two priests whom he found in an open boat. These prists were the first to visit Iceland, and naturally they were not favorably received by all the believers in the pagan religion. The next, summer Lief's son organized an expedition to visit the land his father had discovered, but they met with one mishap after another and, after drifting around all summer, they gave up the attempt. Wineland the Good was still very much in the minds of the people, and they all agreed that some attempt should be made to use Lief's discovery. While they were still talking about the wonderful land Thorfinn

Thordasson, called Karlsefni (a man who gives promise of amounting to something) came from Norway to Iceland. -He spent the winter with Lief and was very much smitten with Gudrid, the young widow of Lief's son Thorstein, and they were married. One can imagine that the young and enthusiastic adventurer listened with eager interest to the . description of the wonderful land that Lief had found. First Attempt to Colonize The talk of Lief through the long Icelandic night had the same effect . .such talk always has when youth and adventure meet and they laid their plans so that when the spring came

they should go in search of Wineland! the Good. Karlsefni fitted out hisj ship. He took his young wife, such) household goods as they needed, their I cattle, and thirty men altogether with i provisions for man and beast. Biarni I

and Thorhall with their ship joined the expedition with their men. Thus was begun the first and perhaps the only serious attempt by the Icelandic people to colonize Wineland the Good. Their ships were small, called a Knoor, a kind of trading ship. "It was a model, doubtless somewhat similar to the modern Nord-lands-jaegter, the typical sailing craft of northern Norway. It was, probably, a clinker-built ship, pointed at both ends, half-decked, lure and aft. and these half decks were in the larger vessels connected by a gangway along

the gunwale. The open space between l the decks was reserved for the stor-'

Every

one is allowed to guess where these places may be. Sable island answers the description, and a thousand years ago it was probably more of a wonder than it is today. These early voyag

ers certainly noticed the unusual, for

they record that they next came to a

shore very much indented with bays.

This was evidently the Maine coast

for there is but on other shore line like it in the world. Here they sent some people ashore and they came back bearing grapes and wild wheat. Somewhere along the Maine coast they stood into a bay. There was an island out at the mouth of the bay, about which there were strong currents, wherefore they call it Strauamey (Stream isle). They sailed

through the firth and called it Straumfiord (Streamfirth). They decided to stay here, so they carried their goods ashore and built some kind of a shelter for themselves and their cattle. The Maine coast looked good to them in the late summer, as it does today. A factor which may have had some influence was that Gudrid was soon to

lor a long time, until thev came at

last to a river, which flowed down from the land into a lake, and so into the sea. There were great bars at the mouth of the river, so that it could only be entered at the height of the flood tide. Karlsefni and his men sailed into the mouth of the river and called it there Hop (a small landlocked bay). "They found self-sown wheat fields on the land there, wherever there were hollows, and wherever there was hilly ground there were vines. Every brook there was full of fish. They dug pits on the shore when the tide rose highest, and when the tide fell there were halibut in the pits. Karl

sefni and his followers had built their huts above the lake, some of their dwellings being near the lake, and

ouit-rs iariner away, rsow they remained there that winter. No snow

eme there, and all their nve stock lived by grazing. .Traded With the Indians. To any one familiar with the coast south of Cape Cod the place should be easy to identify. They traded with the'Skrellings, by which name they evidently meant Indians. It was the same sort of traling that is carried on today with primitive peoples, the exchange -of bright colored cloth for furs. When the cloth began to run short they divided it into smaller pieces and found they could get as much for it as for the larger pieces. They got on very well with the Indians for a long time, but finally Karlsefni's bull frightened the In

dians, and they ran away, and wben they came back they came to fight.

After a pitched battle, in wnicn iwo of Karlsefni's men were killed, as well as quite a number of Indians, the Indians retreated. Thorhall and Huntsman had wandered awav and Karlsefni set out in one ship to find him. "They sailed northward around Keelness, and then

bore westward, having land to the larhnarri Thp country there was a

wooded wilderness as far as they could see, with scarcely an openj space; and when they had journeyed, a considerable distance, a river flowed

'down from the east toward the west.

They sailed into the mouth of the river and lay to by the southern bank." The accuracy with which the sagas

describe certain landmarks is very wonderful. The last quotation evidently describes the sail around Cape Cod and the river which flowed down from the east toward the west is important for it was here that Thorvald Eric's son met his death and it was here that he was buried. They had trouble with the Indians again and in the fight Thorvald was killed by an Indian arrow. If these men had spent the winter south of Cape Cod, and it seems as though they must have done so, then the only river than answers

this description is the little Pamet 1 1

river at Truro on the cape. The river is hardly a creek today, but 900 years ' 1 ago it was undoubtedly large. On the 1 1

wnole New England coast there is not

another river that flows from the east towards the west. After this experience they went back to Streamfirth and passed the winter. In the spring they went back to Iceland. Snorri Karlsefni's Wine-land-born son wa3 three winters old when they reached Iceland.

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Saturday We Offer a Remarkable

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Ixit All-Wool Hose, plain browns, black, er mixtures, plain or dropstitch reduced to

Mercerized Hose, resembling wool, cordovan

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Special discount of 20 on all Hosiery Peace Anniversary Sale.

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The greatest values we have ever shown in Wool Goods. New weaves for Dresses, Suits, Coats, Men's Suits, etc., values that cannot be duplicated. During the fewdays of this Great Peace Anniversary Sale we offer a flat discount of 25 per cent. Regular prices are lower than for many years, and now comes this great reduction which permit3 (he purchase of Wool Goods at a fraction of their real value.

Plain Wool Serges, values up to $1.25; during this Peace Anniversary Sale

Wool Stripes and Plaids, to $1.75; special

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up to $2. i5; Peace Anniversary Sale,

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