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Narrative and critical history of America (1884)

Winsor, Justin, 1831-1897, Maclean, John, 1851-1928, association, MacLean, Harrison John (autograph) · Boston ; New York : Houghton, Mifflin and Co. · leaf 147

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year A. D. looo has beenapproximately determined as the date.- In thissame codex we find the saga of Eric the Red,one of the chief narratives depended upon by the advocates of the Norse discovery, and inKasks judgment it appears to be somewhatfabulous, written long after the event, and takenfrom… … RAFN. in the royal librar>- in Copenhagen. Cf. Laings introduction to his edition of the Heimskringla, vol. i.p. 157. Horn says of this codex : The book was written towards the end of the fourteenth century by twoIcelandic priests, and contains in strange confusion and wholly without criticism a…

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