Antiqvitates americanae : sive, Scriptores septentrionales rerum ante-columbianarum in America. Samling af de i nordens oldskrifter indeholdte efterretninger om de gamle Nordboers opdagelsesreiser til America fra de 10de til det 14de aahundrede. Edidit Societas regia antiqvariorum septentrionalium

Author: Rafn, Carl Christian, 1795-1864
Published: Hafniae : Typis officinae Schultzianae, 1837.
Physical Description: xl, 479 pages : xvii plate (partly folded, including maps, facsimiles) facsimiles, ix genealogical tables

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Series

Library of American civilization

Contents

Introductio.--Conspectus codicum membraneorum, in quibus terrarum americanarum mentio fit.--America discovered by the Scandinavians in the tenth century [by C. C. Rafn]--Thaettir af Eireki Rauda ok Graenlendingum.--Saga Thorfinns Karlsefnis ok Snorra Thorbrandssonar.--De inhabitatione Islandiae.--De inhabitatione Groenlandiae.--De Ario Maris filio.--De Bjorne Breidvikensium Athleta.--De Gudleivo Gudloegi filio.--Excerpta ex annalibus Islandorum.--De mansione Groenlandorum in locis borealibus.--Excerpta ex annalibus Islandorum.--De mansione Groenlandorum in locis borealibus.--Excerpta e geographicis scriptis veterum Islandorum.--Carmen faeroicum, in quo Vinlandiae mentio fit.--Adami Bremensis relatio de Vinlandia.--Descriptio quorundam monumentorum europaeorum, quae in oris Gronlandiae occidentalibus reperta et detecta sunt.--Descriptio vetusti monumenti in regione Massachusetts reperti.--Descriptio vetustorum quorundam monumentorum in Rhode Island.--Annotationes geographicae.

Subject(s)

America—Discovery and exploration—Norse
America—Antiquities

Note

Comp. by C. C. Rafn.
The texts of the sagas are in Icelandic, Danish, and Latin.

Reproduction Note

Microform. Chicago, Library Resources, 1972. 1 microfiche ; 8 x 13 cm. Reduction ratio varies. (Library of American civilization).

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