The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-01-13

1000 and conceded in, the northern
sages that Ari Marson g voyage occurred
in 983. This certainly places Ari as the
first of his race who trod the terra firms
OF the American continent. The HUT
ramannaland, or Great Ireland, is
stated to be situated sin the western
ocean, near Vinland, and west OF Ire
land" The sages describe the route
toward it thus: ITO the south of
habitable Greenland there are unin-
habited and wild tracts and enormous
| icebergs. The country of the Skraelings
lies beyond these, MARYLAND beyond
this. and Vinland the Good beyond the
last. Next to this, aHd something be-
yond this lies Albania. that is Huitra-
maunalaud. whittier, formerly. vessels
came from Ireland. There several
Irishmen and Icelanders saw and recog-
nized Arr, the son of Mar and Kotlu Of
Reykianess, concerning whom nothing
has been heard for long time, and who
had been made their chief by the in
habitants OF the laGd."
Modern antiqusrisns have identified
the country OF the Skraelings as the Es-
quimaux coast, MARYLAND as Labrador,
Vinland as New England and Huitra-
mannaland as the coantry further
snuthward, beyond the chesapeake
Bay.Yd 5di @anfgl %
humboldt in his cosmos says: 1.-THE
Shraelinger related to the Mortimer
settled in Vinland;" that farther south
ward, beyond Chesapeake Bay, There
dwelt white men who clothed themselves
in long white garments, carried before
them poles to which clothes were at
tached, and called with loud voice"
This account was interpreted by the
Christian Mortimer to indicate pro
cessions in which banners were borne,
accompanied by singing" Catholics
will readily understand the significance
of the above. To those who do not, l
would say it refers to the observsnces
and ceremonies then ands-now observed
IN the ritualistic services of the Catholic
church.
1t is not my purpose or desire to con-
troyert the statement that rv
LEFT ERIKsoN DISCOVERED,
or rather landed first in Vinland
New England). l shall allow for argu-
ment's sake that it is so; but | do want
to prove, If possible, that he decidedly
was not the first European that landed
on this contineat, and it is more than
probable that New England was visited |
from Iceland long before Lifts time.
In the Oldest Lagas, the historical mar
rations of fhorhnn harlsefue and the |
lceiandic Landnsmmabock. the south |
ern coasts lying between Virginia and |
Florida are designated under the name |
of the Land of the White Men. They |
are expressly called Great Ireland Cir
land it Miklal and it is maintained |
RI fhaxr NV ha Tr;oh
The volumes in which these corrobor |
alive accou nts are recorded were COM |
piled in the north, three centuries be- |
fore the birth of Columbus, and they |
un oubtedly represent the belief then |
held hat there existed "Great Ire |
land" beyond the Western Sea.
thus lar l have relied on Morse au-
thority to show that Ari Marson and
not Left Erikson was the first of the |
Scandinavians that landed on the con-
tinent OF America, as also to show that
at that time it was the accepted belief of
the Norsemen that long before Left dis
covered Vinland D -sGreat Ireland"
peopled by the Irish, existed in the
ives tern seas, and the Christian religion
was practiced in this favored land long
before dragon prov of the Viking ship
of the Scandinsvians or
THE SPANISH GaaAvELs OF COLUMBUS
pointed westward.
Now come toa different phase eft the
subject. l shall ask. Was America dis
covered by the Irish? It is singular
thing that throughout the proceedings
of the unwilling the statue not one word |
was said tending In any way to connect
Ireland with the FIRST discovery of the
American continent. / shall not ask
why this was So Ipresnme the speak
ers and writer's had their reasons; they |
certainly did not '.giVe honor where it
was DUE" It is not material, however;
the truth always remains the same, and |
sooner or later comes ttethe top. qxx
The Irish annals record that the Irish |
sailor, st. Brandan, who lived from thesI
year &. D. $50 until the beginning ofthe |
following century, made two voyages of |
discovery in search of 'sshe promised |
land" that after The second voyage che |
returned no more" His precise point |
of departure Is explicitly given, viz,
from 1.-THE. foot of Brandan Mountain"
now 7, alec Bay. 1t is stated that his
sea store consisted OF live swine, his
companions of monks. His first voyage
abounded in adventures. The dates in
the legends are positively fixed. Both
Humboldt and Usher record the events.
The voyages OF st. Brandan Were re-
eeived traditions in France, the Neither
lands, Spain and Italy soon after the
northern chroniclers had written their
memoranda concerning Irland it Mikla.
Jacobns Voraignius, provincial, of the
Dominicdns and bishop of Genoa (ths
native city of Columbus), give st. Bran
dams land special prominepce in the
thirteenth century in his Golden Lesessa,
and Paulo Toscannelli of Florence, the
Italian geographer. on the conjectp1al
map which he prepared expressly for
the FIRST voyage of Columbus. set
down as the "tTerra di San Boronaon"-
Est. Brandan's land) and marked 1t on
the charts as opposite, Europe and
Africa, from the south of Ireland to the
end of Guinea" So strong was ahe be-
lief in st. Brandan,s land that, even
after the voyage of Columbus expedi-
tons were sent to explore it. This is
proved by the dispositions taken before
the grand inquisitor of the Canaries,
Dod VI Nrtoz dc FrneZ and from other