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Identifier: youngfolkslibrar09aldr (find matches)
Title: Young folks library
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907
Subjects: Children's literature
Publisher: Boston, CT : Hall and Locke
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rn uninhabitedregion, remaining there for a long time, and assigningmany local names there. The second winter he spentat Ericsholms beyond Hvarfsgnipa. But the thirdsummer he sailed northward to Snaefell, and intoHrafnsfirth. He believed then that he had reachedthe head of Ericsfirth. The following summer he sailedto Iceland, and landed in Breidafirth. He remainedthat winter with IngoH at Holmlatr. In the springhe and Thorgest fought together, and Eric was de-feated ; after this a reconciliation was effected betweenthem. That summer Eric set out to colonize the landwhich he had discovered, and which he called Green-land, because, he said, men would be the more readilypersuaded thither if the land had a good name. . . . Leif the Lucky and the Introduction of Christianityinto Greenland. Eric was married to a woman named Thorhild, andhad two sons; one of these was named Thorstein, andthe other Leif. They were both promising men. Thor-stein lived at home with his father, and there was not
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Norse Explorers. Norse Explorers 49 at that time a man in Greenland who was accounted ofso great promise as he. Leif had sailed to Norway,where he was at the court of King Olaf Tryggva-son. . . . He was well received by the king, who felt that hecould see that Leif was a man of great accomplish-ments. Upon one occasion the king came to speechwith Leif, and asks him, Is it thy purpose to sail toGreenland in the summer? It is my purpose, saidLeif, if it be your will. I believe it will be well,answers the king, and thither thou shalt go upon myerrand, to proclaim Christianity there. Leif repliedthat the king should decide, but gave it as his beliefthat it would be difficult to carry this mission to asuccessful issue in Greenland. The king replied thathe knew of no man who would be better fitted for thisundertaking, and in thy hands the cause will surelyprosper. This can only be, said Leif, if I enjoythe grace of your protection. Leif put to sea whenhis ship was ready for the voyage. For

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