Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-12-15

Next In importance to Left the Lucky,
as regards the discovery and settle
ment Of Vinland, were Thorfin sur
named Karlsefini. and his wife Gudrid,
who with SO others went in the year
A. d. 1907 to Vinland and dwelt there
till A. D. 10ll. 1t was In the year zoos
that the first Icelandic child of record,
their son SNORT was born on the con-
tinent. Thorfin and his family then
went back to Iceland, where Thorf1n
died, several years later.
WIDOW WENT TO ROME.
After his death his widow Gudrid'
being "A jealous Christian, went TO
Rome, and it Is unreasonable to believe
that she did not there tell about tne
discovery Of Vinland. and her Trip
thther Among the descendants OF
Thoriiln and Gudrid were many men OF
mark, among whom were three prom
Brand, Thorlak and Bjarn two or
whom while serving as such
also made trips TO Rome, which leads
me to believe that they might also
have given to the Roman authorities
some important knowledge regarding
the discovery OF the Land In the
West" or Beyond the Sea" Those
bishops were highly educated, and Bish-
op Thorlq.k is to this day best known
as st. Thorlak. And | am inclined 10
think that it might have been due TO
some traditions brought to Rome by
Gudrid who had been in Vinland, and
those whose ancestor Snorrl, was born
I'm Yinland, that Columbus received ms
indomitable impulse to seek land In the
west.
HELGI AND FINBOGI.
II was in A. ID. 1912 that two brothers
named Helgl and Flnbosi, Icelanders
Who came to Greenland at the instiga-
ton OF Freidis. the daughter OF Erik
The Red, went to Vinland, and took her
with them. When there, she broke all
the agreements she had made with
them in Greenland, and after having
caused them to be foully murdered, she
went back to Greenland. Her brother
Left was sorely dlspleased with her;
but she being his sister he forbore in
ficting on heT death penalty.
HISTORY LAPsED.
From that on accounts of the travels
between Ninland and Greenland are
very moager and the latest mention
made thereof In the lsandic annals Is
that In the year A. d. l3i1 a ship from
Greenland came TO Straumfiord (stream
hrth) in Iceland That ship came from
Vinland, but going TO Greenland, drift
ed out OF It's course, and came 10 har-
Dor IN Iceland.
STORY OF NATIVES.
When Left Erikson came from Vim
land he had with him u couple of ma
tive youngsters from there, who said
that TO the south from Vinland was a
land called Whitemen's Land. Who're
the people We're white c0mplexioned and
had many curious and different man
uers from the natives Of Ninland. That
IL was one OF their customs to go IN
professions, carry pole with a cloth
on Il. aud make much noise. 4 story
also came from the Orkueis and Ireland
TO lce!nrd, that south from Ninland
were some Christian people OF white
color, and that an lcelander whose
name was Ari Marsou had been bap-
ti2cd there ana was held 10 honor by
the natives.
This IL q short sketch Of what Is
known regarding the discovery OF tho
American continent by the iceihuders
iu ,he eleventh century The volumes
HanksbOk and Flateyarbok ffofn which
this. The Saga of Erik the Rcd' ana
saga OF 1horhn karscfni' are takeh
and from which j haze condensed the
above. were written sometime during
the fifteenth century The most im-
pouant fact. however, 20 verify THIS
discovery Is this incidntal mentioning
OF Vinapd by Arr the Wise tiied \. u,
lliO in his lslendinBabok, written
about A. D, li20 where, ~ the tenth
chapter he says: THE land called
Greenland vas discovered. and settled
from Iceland. Erik the Red, q mau
from the Broadiirth in Iceland, Went
out there and took up land IN 4 place
Rirce called Eriksiirth. He called the
land Greenland for. said he. a good
name win induce peope TO 20 there.
IN Greenland men found many relics
which prove that the same kind OF pea
pie which has inhabited Ninland has
been IN Greenland also"
DIR. DAsENTs TRIBUTE.
end this article by quoting what
that eminent English scholar Or
| George Webbe Dascnt. says regarding
! the relations I'm general between the
| people TN England and the lcelaniers,
and the Importance OF tho Icelandic
| literature and language for the English
scholars, Says he.
from whatever point Of view, there
| fore we consider the relations which
exist between England and Iceland
| whether from that Of prlmeval affinity
aud community Of race, religion. and