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Flokko sending out ravens
Identifier: popularhistoryof00brya (find matches)
Title: A popular history of the United States : from the first discovery of the western hemisphere by the Northmen, to the end of the first century of the union of the states ; preceded by a sketch of the prehistoric period and the age of the mound builders
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878 Gay, Sydney Howard, 1814-1888
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Publisher: New York : Scribner, Armstrong, and Company
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant



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sta —Pre-Columbian Discovery in America — gives the precedence to Gardar; while Crantz —History of Greenland—who cites as his authority the learned Icelander, Arngrim Jonas/*says Naddok (Naddod) was first driven on the coast by a storm, and that he was followed by a certain pyrate whose name was. Flokko/ and omits any mention whatever of Gar-dar. DISCOVERY OF ICELAND. 3T these he trusted to guide him to the land he sought. The first helet loose returned toward the islands of Faroe, which Flokko con-cluded, therefore, must still be the nearest land ; the second, sent outsome days later, returned to the vessel, which was accepted as a proofthat there was no land within a ravens flight; but the third, when letloose, circling into the air, turned its course at length steadily west-ward, and him Flokko followed, till he reached the island. For onewinter he and his colony lived there ; but his cattle all perished withcold. In the spring, when he would have sown seed, thick ice still
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Flokko sending out Ravens. covered the coasts and rivers ; so when the summer came he sailedback to Norway, declaring that the land, which he called Island, —Iceland — was unfit for the habitation of either man or beast. Tenyears later, however, another colony was taken out from Norway bythe Earl Ingolf, who sought in Iceland a refuge from the tyranny ofKing Harold Haarfager, who no doubt was a despot, but whose offencein this case seems to have been some intolerant notions he held abouta manslaughter that Ingolf had committed. The attempt at coloniza-tion was this time successful, and a state was founded which for sev-eral centuries was the most remarkable community of that age for thesimplicity and freedom of its political institutions, for the license, notto say the licentiousness, of its social life, and for the intelligence andcultivation of its people. Greenland was discovered by another, almost inevitable accident,for, from mid-channel between it and Iceland, both are at th