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Voyages of the Northmen to America : including extracts from Icelandic sagas relating to western voyages by Northmen in the tenth and eleventh centuries, in an English translation by North Ludlow Beamish ; with a synopsis of the historical evidence and the opinion of Professor Rafn as to the places visited by the Scandinavians on the coast of America / edited with an introduction by the Rev. Edmund F. Slafter.

Accession number
PML 3446
Published
Boston : Printed for the Prince Society, 1877.
Notes
"Ten copies, large paper. Two hundred copies, small paper."
The translations are from "The discovery of America by the Northmen" by Beamish, largely taken from Rafn's "Antiquitates Americanae." "Concerning Erik the Red" : p. [23]-43. "Saga of Thorfinn Karlsefne" : p. 45-69. "Bibliographical" : p. [127]-140.
The texts are from Icelandic MSS. of the XII to XIV cent.
Includes index.
Description
162 p., [2] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 22 cm
Binding
Red cloth.
Classification
Department