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Hvids@rk Inscription, recording the burial of
Suasu, an illegitmate daughter of SnOrri Thor
hnnson, and distinguished character in the
account OF Hervardurs expedition, reported to
have been discovered on the 29th of June, 1867
on the Arrowhead Rock on the Potomac river
two miles below the Great Falls aud thirteen
above the city of Washington.
ll2l.-Erik, Bishop of Greenland, sought Vim
land but without success.
l2S6.-Adalbrand and Thorvald, the sons of
Helge, hnd new land west of Iceland. The
Feather Islands, probably the Penguin and
Bacaloa Islands, on the northeast corner of
America, discovered.
-, l2SS.-Rolf is sent by King Erik to seek out
the new land.
129O.-Rolt travels through Iceland, and calls
out men for voyage to the ne " land,
1295.-Landa-Rolf dies
l347.-A ship, with eighteen men on board
comes to Iceland from Greenland which had
l349 (or, according to others, 1870. The
western settlement of Greenland Is attacked by
the Esquimaux, and eighteen Greenlanders OF
lcelandc descent are killed, and two boys car
ried off prisoners
l406-An1rcas, or Enride Audreasson, ap-
pointed Bishop of Greenland goes thither and
returns before l4O9. After this period all com
munication between Greenland and the rest of
the Danish territory, and consequently between
Greenland and America, appears TO have ceased
for Queen Margaret OF Denmark and King Erik
OF Norway, forbade their subjects to trade to
the country. The war which then ragged in the
north of Europe also prevented vessels from
visiting the coast. and thus no khow owledge of the
colony could be obtained.
l433.-A treaty made between England and
Denmark contains the conditions that "What-
ever people have been carried from Iceland
Finmark, Helgeland, and other places, his
Majesty OF land shall provide, etc. etc, that
they be released" In the same year Pope Eu-
genius ~ nominated one Bartholom@Us to the
blshopriC Of Greenland.
144S.-A letter from Pope Nicholas V. to the
bishops of Skaholt and Holum, written in this
NiU a IN nf 40 fafn nf hn antt
OF Greenland.
l477.-C Columbus visits Icelandto examine the
records of the early Icelandic voyages to un-
ms IDEA that land-Asia, he imagined-could be
found by sailing continually to the West.
1492.-Columbus discovers the West Indies,
and not the East Indies, as he expected.
l623.-Erk Wachendor6, Archbishop of
TbIondhjem, excited by the recent discoveries
| of the Spaniards proposes to Christian ii. an
| expedition to Greenland, which was rejected.
l559.-Christian III removes the prohibition
| established by Queen Margaret against trading
to Greenland, and send out ships to explore the
| country, but without success; several attempts
are made in the succeeding Ieigns down to that
| ofFrederiek III, in 1870, with similar results.
| l56S.-Sr Erlend Thordson. priest in Ice.
land, still in possession OF an ancient chart of
| Hvitramaunaland, White Mans Land, or Great
| Ireland together with the boundaries OF Mark
land, Eintetingjaland, little Helluand, and
Greenland, OF which no further information has
| been obtained.
| l6SU.-tlrSt examination MADE OF the Cele-
| brated Dghton Writing Rock in Massachusetts.
| This Runc inscription contains various cryptic
! graphs and rude combinations of figures Illus.
| tratiVe of the settlements of the Northmen,
among which devices may yet be traced the
name OF Thor6nn, aud some figures correspon-
| ding TO the number OF his associates. 1t was
| deciphered in the present century by Professors
| Finn, Magnussen, and Ram.
| l72l.-Hans Egede, Pastor of Vaag, Norway,
succeeds in planting a new colony in Greenland,
J which has continued TO the present day.
lSSO'..Committee appointed by the Rhode
Island Historical Society examines and reports
| upon the Dighton Writing Rock.
| lS63.-The Skaholt saga, bearing date 1l17,
| giving an account of the expedition of Heryar-
| dur. eXhumed at Skalholt, Iceland.
1867 June 2S.-The reported discoveries
below the Great Falls of the Potomac river
made by Professor Thomas G. Rapinnson, of Co
penhagen.
The works which may be consulted with refer
| enCe TO the discovery of America by the North
men, previous TO the landing of Columbus, are
the following, many or all of which are to be
found in any of the principal libraries OF the
| United StatCs:-
Antiqutates Americana. sive Scriptores Sep
tentrionales rerum mADte-COlumbinarum in Ame.
RIGA. Alto. Hafnie 1887.
Archeologia Americana. Transactions and
Collections of the American Antiquarian So
clety. 3 vols. $40. Worcester, 1920, and Cam
bridge, 1S36-50.
Beamish. North Ludlow. Discovery of Ame-
rica by the Mortimer IN the tenth century, with
the Western Hemisphere. Svo. London, l64l.
Davis, A.-DisCoVery OF America bJ the North
men Five Hundred Years before Columbus. Svo.
Boston, 1874.
Engel, samuel d. Essai sur cette Question
quand ct comment rAmerique a telle etc peu-
plee? vols. in 2, 12mo. Amsterdam. 1867.
Horn, George.--De OriginIbus Americanus
Libri w. l2mo. Hag@ COmitis, 1862.
Kohl, 7. Popular History of the Discovery
of America, from Columbus to Franklin. Trans
lated by r. r. Noel. vols. l2mo. London,
1862.
Murray, Sir Thomas.-The Shalholt Saga, in
the original Latin, and translated into English,
with notes, etc. Svo. London, 1865.
Rain, Carl Christian. discovered in
the Tenth Century. 8vo. New York, 1888.
- Memoire sur la DecOuverte de PAmerque
au Dxieme Steele. Traquit de pAllemand, par
X. Mariner. Syo. Paris, 1888.
Smith, Joshua Toulmn.-The discovery ol
America by the Mortimer in the Tenth Century;
comprising transations OF all the most import
ant original narratives of this event. I'd ed,
l2mo. London, 1912.
In conclusion, let me say that, having eXa
mined most OF these works myself with reference
to the Hvidserck Runc inscription OF the Poto
mac, / was astonished to find the most compli
Gated doVetailing between the two, going tC
show ii the latter Is a genuine Runic in
scripton, the truth of both, or, II the Hvids@rcB
inscription is a forgery, the most consummatC
ingenuity on the part of its unknown author,