The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-03-27

with the legend or tradition of the yoy-
age of St. Brendan and the beautiful
poem on the event by Dennis Florence
Mccarthy. Nearly all the early Irish
geographer, describe Hy-Brazil (mean-
ing the West), a name given by the COM
uon mariners. hence Brazil. There
must have been some cause or there
would notshave been legend. 1t was
accepted as truthful for centuries, sud
curious enough, one of the first books
printed in England by Caxton is an &C.
count of the voyage of st. Brendan,
proving at once the popularity of the
story. The tradition was almost forgot
ten or neglected by scholars and historians
until 1887, when, the Royal Society Of
Northern Antiquarians of Copenhagen
caused to be collected and published tho
Pre-Columbian Voyages to America.
In1S4l N. Ludlow Beamish, a Fellow Of
the Royal Society, London, published
"The Discovery of America by the
Northmen, in the Tenth Century, with
notices of the early settlements of the
Irish in the Western Hemisphere
which threw a great deal of light on the
heretofore neglected legend of st. Bren-
dan. There are various hypothesis more
or less ingenious relating to the peo-
pling of America, prior to discovery by
Columbus, each with some degree of
probability. The learned Rabbi Israel
in his work on sThe hopeof Israel" pub
lisbed ,in Amsterdam in 1869: endeavors
to show that America was peopled by the
<.lost tribes" while Professor Rain, of
Copnehagen, claims that people
speaking the Irish language were found
in Florida, as far back as the Eighth
century. This will in some manner help
Rev. Mr.. Wild, OF Brooklyn, out of the
archaeological difficulty he got himself
into when he declared recently in lec-
ture there that ST. Patrick was no other
than the prophet Jeremiah, and that the
early Irish wese beyond question of the
s'lost tribes" We don'tintend to settle
the question. There ia one thing certain,
however, that if they we're found here
they all emigrated at once, as no trace Of
them remains in Ireland at the present
day. The Irish were always fond of
rowing. DR.. Won Eschudi, in his cele-
brated Horkon Peruvian Antiquities, says
that according to probable conjecture, the
corntry which lay along from Chesa-
peake Bay, extending down into the
Catolinas and Florida, was peopled by
Irishmen. he says in note in the: lat
ter part of the work that q manuscript
was found before he finished his book,
which converted the conjecture into GER
ta;nty. He mentions Northman with
the euphoEic name of Breidvikingakap-
pi, who had an amour with a sister of
the powerful chief, Snorne Code. by rea-
son Of which he was obliged to emigrate
to America. This was in 999. There
were no tidings from him for long time
until an Iceland merchant named Gud-
lief Gudlangson, desired to return from
Dublin to Iceland. He took the route
by the west of Ireland. Itappears it was
as dangerous in those days as these, and
poor Gudlief was driven out to sea. He
was, taken after couple of months of
hunger and hardship on the ocean to an
unknown coast, where he was made D
prisoner by the natives as soon as he
landed. In short time troop of men
came to him, preceded by standard
and speaking Irish, q language he could,
speak himself. They were directed by
unlold man on horseback, who comman-
dsd Gudliefto be brought before him.
He asked him in the Scandinavian
tongue who he was and where he came
from, snd discovering him to be an Ice
lander, he informed him that he was
Breidvickingakappi, the lover of Thurid.
Scandinavian Princess He was per-
mitted TOY return to Iceland, convincing
all thatthe lover of Thurid was alive,
by ring brought from him which she
had given him years previously.
Humbolt in the Kosmos says: "a
country situated further south was named
by. the ancient sScandinavians, Land cf
the White man, or Great ireland. NJ.
Rain il of the opinion that this country
represents North and South Carolina,
Georgia and Florida. Are Erode, the
most ancient historian of Iceland, IN
forms US that Are Marson arrived in 93S
A. D. in that country, where he received
baptism. The same country, the Great
Ireland, has also beer mentioned by
Abou Abdallah Mohammed Edrisi, an
Arabian geogragher of the Twelfth Cen
tury, who was born at 'Ceuta' in 1899,
and pursued his studies at Cordona. It
was ut the invitation of Roger l., King
of Sicily lI130-1154), tina. this Arabian
author pursued his work, and he. is
doubtless indebted to the Normans en-
ployed at the Court of Palermo for his
information.
Among the most interesting Of the old
sages mentioned by Rafn is Thorin
Karlsefne. He was an Icelandic mer-
chant of royal descent. He WAS famous
voyager, and his discoveries in America
we've continued from 1907 to 1910. To
Karlsefne, and Snorne, before mentioned,
was assigned the duty of visiting and ex-
ploring Vineland. They started in the
spring of 1907 with 160 men. Many of
those old sailors are thoroughly de-
scribed. There is one man, for instance
named O'Turnill from Dublin, who wa,
called the "huntsr." He is described az
large black haired strong man, like a
giant, foul-mouthed of speech, and not
over orthodox as q Christian. He was
well acquainted with foreign parts. He
had been a hunter in Ireland, and seems
acted as steward on board the ship. He
was perpetually quarreling, often drunk
aud was we'll acquainted with the virtues
ofa shillaleagh, weapon much dreaded
by the Northmen. The discoveries of
Karlsefne are full of interest. His de-
scriptions of the people found here cor
respond with those given 600 years later.
A single item from this saga will be OF
interest, Us entirely corroborating the
tradition of St. Brendan. In tine third
year of his wandering in MARYLAND he
came across five Shroelings or savages.
One.wassa bearded man, twowere females,
and tWo were boys. The boys, were cap
tured and taught to speak the language Of
the Mortimer. They gave the name OF
their father as Unvoege, and their moth
er Vatheldi. They stated that beyond
them on the mainland there lived peo-
p!e white in color, wearing white gar
.,,t, ~, rry;no nouc m polos and shout-