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...Greenland's overlord, Erik the Red took a cut of virtually everyone's profits from the export of furs and ivory. Material success apparently did not keep Erik and his family content, though; they undoubtedly heard of a voyage by a captain named Bjarni Herjolfsson, who had been blown off course while en route to Greenland from Iceland. After drifting for many days, Bjarni spotted a forested land. But instead of investigating this unknown territory, he turned back and reached Greenland...
...most exciting cartographic discovery of the century." The map, acquired by Yale's library, was the first to show the Western Hemisphere as it was discovered by the Vikings centuries before Columbus. It became known as the "Vinland map" because it bore a Latin inscription declaring that Bjarni and Leif Ericson had "discovered a new land, extremely fertile and even having vines, the which island they named Vinland...
Johns Hopkins File 7 (ABC, 12:30-1 p.m.). A fascinating look at the evidence that a few hardy explorers-the Vikings, a Scandinavian named Bjarni Herjulfson, or an Irish saint named Brendan-may have sighted North America's shores centuries before Columbus peeked over the horizon...
...surface of the earth." That logic led Explorer Freuchen to learn the lore he put into his book. He studied the science of the tides, waves and winds, learned about history's great sea battles. He came to know the tales of the great seaborne adventurers, from Bjarni Herjulfson. reputed to be the first Viking to see America, to Boston Harry Adams, the ugly Ohio farm boy who became a legend among the polyglot pearlers of Thursday Island...
...closeted with Secretary of State Dean Acheson, who told him the facts of life as related to peace for the Atlantic community-and also, probably, gave him an estimate of what Denmark could expect in the way of arms after she signed. This week, Iceland's Foreign Minister Bjarni Benediktsson arrived for a similar briefing...