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Word: bjarni (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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This was the story reconstructed last week by Charles Trick Currelly, curator of the Royal Ontario Museum of Archeology, a seasoned, reticent archeologist who has seen service in Sinai, Greece, Crete, Turkey. For background Dr. Currelly had the old Norse sagas of Eric, Leif, Bjarni, Karlsefni, the trader. For material evidence, he had the age-crusted sword, broken in two, and fragments of the ax and shield which were buried with "The Beardmore Viking" in Ontario...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Old Norse | 10/24/1938 | See Source »

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