New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-02-07

them from their Scandinavian mother lsud loelSndws
vulue
TIE Situation Of the hlsnd aud he relationship OF the
colony 10 ioregn countries IA Is carrier y~roj, com
peitd rs mia, 'taEts 20 exercise sll Gevglcp their
Hereditary maritime skl aud thirst for new discoveries
series the great Oceen AZ eary the yesr S77 Gum
horr sew for the trst time the mountain, u COST
Greenland But this land wss arst visited hy Erk N e
Red u 9c who three years siefwsrd IN $50 by rleans
Of Tctisudic cnigrsnts es'sbshed the fist colony
ffs southwestern shore. where sfterward in ll2s
Rshof. Sc wac founded. which suhsstel tor up ssri
al JOC Yeas The head 6Eths bays nane1 aher
TIE cliefs Of the eXpeitio7 Erk The Red seized In
Erks firth Einar Rain ard kctl in the k-ths cslled
sffer them and Herulf on HeriUlisness. Ga voyage
from iceland 10 Greenland this same year ESQ., BlSrne.
the son Of tie latter driven tar out 70 seq toward
TIE American lands aferwsrd visited and named by his
countrymen In order % eNSIninetheso countries more
narrowly Left the Fortunate, son o. LA the he UNI
GeTtook voyage q discovery thiher N the year LgOv
He landed the shores described by Bsrne detailed
the character Of there isnds more exactly and esve
them names according to their appearance; heaiAnd
(Newioondlspd) called ircm - taf stones, Mark
land New and frUm is woods aud Nlnela1d New
England from It's vines. Here Re remained for some
time aud constructed lsrge houses called sitter him
LEFT ROOths) German named TyTker, who accom-
panied Liei on this voyage, the who found the
Wild vines. which he recogued from having them
IN his land and Lett gave the country tsname from
Ills Circumstance. Two years aerward Leis brother,
ThorNsld repaired .hisher and in 1908 caused al eNpe
Iit'Ou tC undertaken 10 the SOUTH
but he killed in the summer OF 1904 on voyage
nc-fkws-G In 3 skriaish with the uatiy e.
The most distinguished, however, OF all the 6rst
American discoveries Is ThOrhn karsefnc sn Iceland
e. whose genealogy il carried back Ia The Oh Northern
annals 10 Danish Swedish, Norwegian. Scottish snd
Irsh sncestors some OF them OF royal blood In 1908
this chet on merchant voyage visited Greenland. and
there marrcd Gudrid the widow OF TaOrsosn, (son OF
Erik the Rcd who had died the year before IN an un-
successful expedition 60 Vinelsnd. Accompanied by
his wife who encouraged him 10 this voyage, AMI by
crew OF 100 men board three vessels be- repnret IN
the spring Of 1907 % Vncand where h. remained tor
three wears and had many communications with me
sborsines. Here his wife Gudri bore him son.
SnOrrc who became the founder OF uustr1ous tami
h in Iceland which gave that island several Of t' hrst
Bshcrs His daughtcrs son was the celebrated Bishop
Thorsk RunClison, who published the hrst Christian
Code OF Iceland. In ll2l Bishop Erik sailed % Vine
land nom Greenland, doubtless for the purpose OF
Strengthening his countrymeu in their Cnrsan sish
The notices given by the OH lcolsndic voyage
clCrs respecting the climate the SOL and the protuc-
tons OF this new country, very chara tertc Nay.
We have statement Of this Kind a. old a. tho
eleventh century nom writer not N0rthman. Adam
of Bremen; he sstes the authority OF SVEN Estrid
son, the King OF Denmark, a nephew OF Cauute tao
Great that the country gots name from The 'ine growing
wild there II remarkable coincidence in this respect
that lie Eneih rediscoyerers, for the same reason,
name the large island which Is clOse OF the cOst Mar
has Tip0dYd Spontaneously growing wheat (naEe
or Indian corn also found in this country.
In the meun time Il is the total result of TIE nautical
geographical and astronomical evidences IA inc orignm
documents which places the situation OF the countries
discovered beyond all doubt. The number OF days sail
between the several newly found anis the striking 10
scrption OF the coasts especially the white sand banks
of New Scotland and the long beaches and downs OF
peculiar appearance on Cape Cod Che hialarnes and
fur,lustrandir of the NOrhmcn not 10 Do mistaken
In addition hereto have the astronomical remark
IL the shortest day hours long, which likes tho
latitude OF 40 "a i01 or just that of tue promonores
which limit the entrances 90 Mount Hope Bay. where
Lef's booths were built and in the district around
which tho old Mortimer had their head establishment
which they called Hop.