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Ieelaad was frst discovered by Naddad a
Norwegian pirate. in the year 800. alp,oat one
Thousand years age. He was thrown IN "A
| coast in the winter, and from the appcara1ne al
the country he called it snelsnd--s sSnoxla "a !
Four years after, Gsrdar Swarfarson, SFeSe.
! eircumaavigatiDg il found 1t IN isiand, and
named it sGardener's Hoinn,' or Gardar,s fsIand.
His account of the coHntry was 80 favorable,
that Floikis another aea rover, vent there TO
\ setfies betnegiecting to cut hay in the apmuAer,
ms cattle perished in the winter. r rom the
accuinniati Of ice on the wess coast, Gee fhen
was driven ever from Greenland ,I he called the
country Iceland.s naras Ii has ever since
borAe Lin 81 the frht permanent settiement
". Vas y nade 40 ieeiand, BY 1ngol9 o Norwegian
:. Greenland was dsscsvereI in 1850, one hun
dred and twenty years after the discovery Of
Iceland In 9s2, Eric. furnamed the Red, sailed
to Greenland and In gS6 Established a settle
neat There which feRrished move than faur
hnndred yeass.4-Ts induce eestlsrs to 10 and
reside in a new country the most fabuIons ac-
counts were given of the climate aud produce
tons fLe face of she country was repre resented
as clothed isggreen, and it Ess even stated that
ever plant dsseped with butter s-ess,s@sls
sne name OF = Greenland thus gwen to it
was asgreaS uisnomeY ase. Ieeiand y applied
to the uesghbosiug isles. In syealisy 4Eetwo
countries should change nsines, for Iceland is q
JS.
Greenland is covered #ish sllsost perpetual ice
and sngws Eric the Red hsd = sconpanton in
ms greenland settlement whose name was
nsrapI- Biarni, the son Of Of HeriuH sailed
fron 1celsnd to join his father in. Greenl.nd,
was driven south, and landed on4the Asaerican
eoast wprobahiy Labsadars- Thus the Arst dis-
seeSeTy OF @Amerioa BY; Europeans was in the
year 1856, by Biarni Heriulfson, q native Of
Norway, though she sailed frefa Iceland. He
returned north aud landed in Greenland, and
gafeAn account Of his discovery
sntsequeat voyages TO the American coast
were made BY Lief and his TWO broihers, CONS Of
Eric tbe-Red, who after ahs ssyls of names in
Iceland Was called Ericsson. L asat snesl;rs ON
geod saatharityt sn.eaying thst gifted Swede,
now an American citzsa,s and Enost .prousinent
before thss#arld lis a direcs descendens cf Eric
and bis som, allade ta4Cspt. Ericssens the
inventor Of the caleFie ship-@& pioneer in
american discovery, and o worthy descendant
OF Amer1cass Ss~e. ssSs - 81 y ,ffss-I
NJ another interesting fact may be+ noted.
9Among the. carly eestlers in<America - fsr
settlement was formed, that continued seyerak
yearHs-some Of the smen haas their wives with
them One of these, the wife Of Thorfn, while
~ Amsrics gase birth t. . sons whe WAS named
Snorre. 80 s.s-ssa - asss-,i5ssss II
Ihis Snorre Thor6sen was .tiresfrst ssatiye
American Of whom we have any aecourt land
may be set down as the first I sfkee on record.
II rom this YhoIfisen was descended ThBrwaid-
sen, and also Fin Magnnseany the histoYIsn and
sntiqaary, 80 that we can alinsseselaina the
great 's9ufptsr of the North and thegseat Hisso-
rian-a -AmeFicauss u S1l3saS4SFas
These facts Igathered from Iesiandic geneo-
logical tables Yand all who shave investigated
the history Of the Northern ri atioBs, Know With
what accuracy thesestables- are complied. To
'retuaH asiittae in my naTrative.: kelf Ericsson
having purchased the ship of Biarni Heriuif-s
son. sailed from Greenland in the year l000
The first land he mad NE called ss Helluland,''
or lamisof fat stoAess Thiss was dsnbsless the
coast of Newfoundland. The next coast hessaw
was cosered with forests. and Consequently he
named it g MARYLAND, or Weodland.a = This
was iprobably Nova Seotias Tke next land
be discovered. still farther South, produced
vines and grspes, ,-aud this he named o Vim
laua 2 q name the Ipeisaders ever afterwards
used in speaking of the American conti-
neHt, Wehdye the Best of proof, the climate
and proauctiens, mtthe lepeth of the days, as
well as in their maps and drawings, that their
settlements was on come part Of our New Eng
land coastsprobably Massachusetts or Rhode
Island. In subsequent voyage, these adSen-
tuceus nsysgators sailea father South, aHfit is
supposed, from the, eecepns they gave, that
lhey proceeded as far as Virginia and abe Caro-
Hnas. Ilmber, iuss, and grapes, were the most
valuable articles the eountay produced; and for
thete several voyages were made to Finland,
FROM Greenland, houses were built, and settlers
resided ,ia the. country for &c least three
years, from. .oll TO 10l4.s