New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-03-03
THE LECTURE.

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Soar. snoe It may serve text for all that nave
- 7, "a ont Of An old Saga-NOrse ssgas, prODaoy-
- novanth or about the twelfth century Inc army
- orimalfson was blown with his SHIPS III t"o i''n
OCEAN and there camo worms, ana 'no snP IS
.,nl upder them. Tlo- had BOAT "ho" '"0' 80 -"
ravsA with seals bluDber for that the a"o's wiz
not hurt And when they got iD'o ."' , Soa'
they saw that 1t wonlu ~. ~. boa,
all Then said Barne, = AS 'ho '0"
IL, o,v hod onebalf OF u.s. my advice Is that VIC "ra"
should 90 in her, for that will not be unworthy
=, our manhood This advice seemed so COCA lna' no"
0siossyed IT, and they drew lots mat lo' i'I V
B,arne that he should 60 INTO 'he oo"' -"
half his crew But as he got into MS Doat tneIo SPAN
an 1os,,pder who was In Europe, and who Followed
- ,,,,o rce,and Oloth he, Art tbon going TO
Iosvs here Biarner Qu)th Biarne SO must IL ne'
Then spoke the Icelander, d" Another tmng o!uS'
than promise my father when sailed from Iceland tnah
20 desert me thus for thou sad'st We both sno"u "
the same lot" Then Quoh Bjarne' "That VIC WIN no'
do; get thou down into the boat and VIII get up
shlp now thou art greedy OF me-. 80 hJArno Won
into the ship, and the went down into the boat
"a ,,nv vent on their voyage until they came TO Duo
lin I'm Ireland But most that Blarne anu MS
comrades persisted among tho worms ior INV "o'o
never heard Of afterward
This story NAV serve as q text for my whole lecture
got only does it smack Of the sea breeze ana SAT- water
uts ALI the finest old Morse sagas bat 1t gives US n
,,a.o q, last NJ the pobepess that underes the
grim and often cruel nature Of the Norsemen'
n heongs too to the eliminating epoch TO the OeRiu
ming of that era when the scandinavian people hau '"e'
Great times; when the Old nerceness Oh inc
Worshipers OF Thor and O1in was tempered
without being sfeninste by the worship OF the
nwb,ta Christi until the very who had
han thu desroyers Of Western Europe became its civil
.ers 1t should have beer, moreover, OF special inter-
eat to Americans; for, as American anuquarians are
we'll aware Bjarne his way home from the coast
Of Ney-EnGland. Possibly from that very Mount
Hope 10 New-Englaad which seems TO nave
borne the same In the times OF those old Morse
men, as it did aterwsrd in the days OF King Philip the
la, OF the Sachems OF the WamfanoaE Indians. He was
~ope back probably for rconforcements ind
pR he and his fellow Captain Shortrum' the ESqumax'
Who dwelt IN that land too strong Tor thein FOR
the Eorsemen then the very edge OF discovering
nat which might have changed the history not only OF
this continent but OF Europe itself. They had found
and colonized Iceland and Greenland, They
had found Labrador and called IL Hello
land, as the Devons1ire people call IL TO
this day. from It's polished rocks. 1heylhad found Nova
BootiA, seemingly, and called IT MARYLAND, from It's
woodsL They had found New-Lngland, and called 1t
Vineland the Good They found IL well wooded and with
good pasturage that ey had already imported COWS
and bull, whose lowings tempted the Is
ouimaux and found seli-sOwn corn. presumably
Inase and streams full of salmon and they called the
land Vneand by reason OF the grapes and kind land;
the first finding of wild fOx-grapes IN your land
The story that Lief the Fortunate almost as soon
as he landed. missed little old weascned German serv-
aut OF bis father Tyrker and yexed thereat and
during the night he seeks him. ana he meets him
highly excited In his old German native tongue aud
when they got him talk Morse, ne said, have news
true foster father /" at says the German "for
was brought up where there was never ack OF
It would ne be amss II some Of your scnlptors-IOr your
have great sculptorswere 10 place Tyrker IN some pub
lie nisc he Northern
The frat oargoes they brought back were WOOD prin'
cipaly cedar aud raisins aud ynestaks not hkey 10
thrive in Greenland. Beyond Yinland. ago. there
was said to be q white mans land-lreland Mlka ire
land the Big" as some called it. The Morse traders
from Limerick found westward Ar Marson, whom they
supposed drowned, and they called tie Ishd
With men wearing white cloths and with flags poles
these dreams some part OF that great extinct
mspy parts Of the United States, existence 200 years
seOi aud these NorDsns on is very edgei But be
Ssem as sailed % as far south as Se%York become
svsre ths. Just beyond them hen .. Lay, 1D. and
Stream would probably prevent them from getting to
the CUT Of Mexico tut If they settled on 4s coast
nigh. uS on GH throne of So1GS T4Ss
Thcy may be found. most OF them IN Prof Fafns Anti
often clear dramatic. ana the personages are
realistic that all the evidences Of historic truth
seemed to be the biuf-head Of Alderton at the
southeast end Of Breton Bay, said here wOuli ike
him there with at his head aud at his
feet aud call tho Of the place Cross Ness for
more; Qudrda, the magnificent widow, who wins hearts
aud does strange deeds from Iceland 20 Greenland and
Greenland 10 yineland and back, at last moment
and sad goes OF pilgrimage 70 Rome.
Hegt and Tnmbogi, the Norwegans. who, like own
Arctic voyagers in after times dey Sc all sorts Of sports
aud games keep their 10 hope during the long
Winter At Hin and last but not least the terrible Frig
disa, Who when the Morse were seized with sudden
as they had ned from TnOrhnn. believing
bull throe weeks before, turns when 30 weak
abe
mau's sword puts them al e fight with
her hsf''G husband to fall on HslS and Tfim.Ss5
their men and then when he viii not murder the FIVE
women take: up an az ana p ss n b az r snd
unexplained tale Gomez out, lives unpunlsned put 40
nessios But beyond them and towering verge
OF Bythus and Of FARMLAND Is ballad Gaea drn ,ni
the Princess Inug, daughter Of the King Of Iceland
whioh still with other ssgas or ballads 10 tae
Rain has inserted it because It talks OF Vine
ad wsEnOsn pSes t a2e K tne A%af
lea But that ballad has another value ~ IS OF !,
beauty perfect and yet 20 IKE the ola sGoten anu
ts qusliios that II is one proof more 10 any stu
den. Of early northern poetry thyt we anu
,SagfellSw may know 1t far better than who an nc
Late some day, but he can translate II is II
sac snt no tenderness less exquisite than his can pre-
vent Us bong painful and, least. in its denonemen
80 naive that no purity iess excellent than his car
prevent us 5eins GIea9Iu But the Saga is worthy o
Mr. b0nefell0w as Mr. LODgfeow worthy OF the saga
II anything more Important than is told by Prof Rafu
aud hit. Bbck be now known 10 the antiauariaps OF
Massachusetts, let me eutreat them to pardon my
Ignorance.
But lot me record my firm opinion that though toe
much nave been made Of certain rock inscription
thls side Of the Aantic-and am bound 20 say thai
have seen no rock inscription thai believed To b,
ScAndiua yiaR-there can he reasonable doubt tina
our owe landed aud attempted settle the shore
New England 60 years before their kinsmen and N
Tnany eases their deseCndants-the august Pilgrim
Fathers Of the seventeenth century. Aud thur, a
1871. A.L-.. al.L.l IT,.