The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1923-12-12

Of Vikings and landed, touching three
peninsulas, Newfoundland Nova Scot
la, and Cape Cod, building his house
and passing the winter near the latter
on the mainland, which he called Vine
land, because of the grapes he found
there, mot planted by the hand Of
man." He made known his discovery
and described the character of the
new land upon his return to Green
land the following year.
Thereupon an expedition was un-
dertaken by Thorfnn Karlsefni, who
traced Leif's course and landed at the
same spot in what is now New, Eng
land. The explorations and settle
ments of the Morse continued up to
1347, when the outbreak of the Black
Plague SO decimated the population
of the homeland that further voyages
were not made.
Professionalism, as we now know it,
had not at that early time been recog-
nized, and yet the records indicate
that the Morse, in their very nature,
We're resistant to the religo-political
system headquartered in Rome. An
incident recorded in the Saga of Eric
the Red (and other sagas, in almost
identical language related that Left
rescued some shipwrecked voyagers
from the waves, among whom was a
Roman priest. When he told his
father, Eric, about this, rescue, he
was rebuked by the remark that he
had spoiled his good deed in rescuing
the others by his evil deed in rescu-
ing the priest. The claim advanced
today in parochial school histories and
elsewhere that Left Ericsson was a
communicate of the Roman system is
without foundation.
These historical facts, CLEANED from
the Icelandic Sagas and which are at
tested by records whose truth can
not be impugned, and which are &C.
cepted by scholars, establish that the
discoverer of America was Left Eric
son. He was the one who set out
in the year 1000 and found the new
Western World, and who returned and
made it's existence known. Since
there were no printing presses nor
means of ready communication be-
tween the nations and races of Eu-
rope, knowledge did not spread with
the same rapidity as today; but never
theless scholar, Adam of Bremen,
in the year 1913, wrote a volume, pre-
served in Copenhagen, Denmark, in
which he described the Morse discov-
cry of the Western World; and this
knowledge of land to the west was in
the possession of the learned men of
Europe from that time.
Vatican Hides Facts
The hour had not yet come when
colonization of the new land was to
be begun. Discovery and colonization
are separate and distinct steps in the
development of this nation. It is a
matter of record that in 1477 Column
bus made voyage to Iceland and in
terviewed the seafaring men there
who inherited their knowledge of the
Western world from their forefathers.
1t is also beyond question that in the
archives of the Vatican, where in
formation and learning of every sort
was carefully filed, there were re-
cords of the Morse discovery of Vine
land, of the voyages of the Vikings
to our shores. This prior knowledge
which Columbus had at his disposal
gave him that extraordinary conf
dence which the romantic accounts of
his voyage, to San Salvador ascribed
to his enlightenment from Heaven"
A quotation on this point, from a
volume entitled "America Not Discov-
cred by Columbus" written by Prof.
Rasmus B. Anderson of the Univer-
sity of Wisconsin, and published in
1901, is of interest:
"The antiquities of the North furn-
ish 9 series of incontestible evidence
that the coast of North America was
discovered in the latter part of the
tenth century, Immediately after the
discovery of Greenland by the Morse
men. = The fault that we find
with Columbus is that he was not
honest and frank enough to tell where
and how he obtained his previous in
formation about the lands he pre-
tended to discover; that he some
times talked of himself as chosen by
Heaven to make this discovery, and
that he made the fruits of his labours
subservient to the dominion of in
QUESTION"
Columbus was in no sense the dis
coverer of America. His voyage had
been ante-dated by nearly 500 years
by a prior navigator, Left Ericsson.
Columbus never set foot on North
America, having been strangely d.
verified from his course toward it by
the southwark flight of a flock of
birds, which led him to turn the prows
of his three ships toward San Saliva
dor. Before he made his second
voyage and landed on the mainland in
South America, John Cabot, an agent
of the King of England, had landed
on the mainland of North America at
the same locality where its dis
coverer, Lief Ericsson, had set his
standard in the year 1000. AS if
following divine plan, the colonial