Peruvian Antiquities

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: the ancestor of the distinguished historian Snorre Sturlu- Son, desired to return from Dublin to Iceland, taking the route on the west of Ireland; but violent hurricanes proceeding from the northeast, drove him to the west, and afterwards to the southwest, carrying him, after a long and dangerous voyage,...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: the ancestor of the distinguished historian Snorre Sturlu- Son, desired to return from Dublin to Iceland, taking the route on the west of Ireland; but violent hurricanes proceeding from the northeast, drove him to the west, and afterwards to the southwest, carrying him, after a long and dangerous voyage, to an unknown coast, the natives of which seized him as soon as he had landed. In a short time a troop of men came to him, preceded by a standard, and speaking a language resembling that of Ireland; they were directed by an old man on horseback, of noble and imposing aspect, to whom it belonged to decide on the fate of the prisoners. He commanded that Gudleif should be brought into his presence, and asked him, in the Scandinavian language, who he was and whence he came; and discovering Gudleif to be a native of Iceland, the old man informed him that he himself was Bioern Astrandson, the lover of Thurid, and of the same place as she and his son Kiartan. Afterwards he set Gudleif and his companions at liberty, advising them to leave, as soon as possible, a country of so little hospitality; and, at their departure, he gave to him a ring for Thurid, and a sword for his son Kiartan. Gudleif returned to Dublin, and thence, in the following summer, to Iceland, where he delivered the presents, convincing all that Bioern As- brandson had sent them. This genuine story, written a little after the events, is in our view an important proof in favor of the opinion that Irish colonies were established in Huitramannaland, the present Carolinas, and probably also in Florida; and that the immigration of these colonies took place long before the first navigation of the Scandinavians to the New World, as we are enabled to fix it with certainty in the ninth century of our era, Various other...