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...typewriter. Myers sticks to the old story that it was Leif Ericsson, not Ogier and the princess, who deserves the credit. But Author Myers is dissatisfied with all accepted versions of Leif's adventures, and offers a revised one: Leif was not on his way to Christianize Greenland-he was simply an old-fashioned pagan, making sea tracks from Norway because he couldn't stand Christianity at home...
Most of the sailings from Greenland to America were made along an established route . . . The purpose of these voyages was to gather wood . . . Since this wood was carried on the current out of Hudson Bay, it is very likely that the Norsemen would seek its origin. This would lead them westward from Greenland through Hudson Strait down the west coast of Labrador, with its thousands of sheltering islands, [into] James Bay . eventually coming to the Albany River. The route up this river is an old one. It has few portages over 25 chains, and the trail takes...
Support from Greenland. What first caused Thalbitzer's doubt to waver was his study of the smaller Kingigtorssauq rune-stone discovered in 1823 near Upernavik in northern Greenland. The Greenland Stone is undoubtedly genuine, and its runes have peculiarities like those that cast doubt on the Kensington Stone...
...repeats a theory developed by Hjalmar R. Holand, a Norwegian-American who has long championed the Kensington Stone. In 1356, according to Holand, King Magnus Ericksson of Sweden and Norway sent an expedition under Powell Knutsson to see what had happened to the Norse colonies in Greenland. When they found that the colonists were dead or had moved elsewhere, Knutsson's Norsemen pushed farther west. Eventually they reached Hudson Bay, and then the Great Lakes and Minnesota...
...suspect that since the last major ice age the earth's climate grew gradually warmer until about 5,000 B.C. Then the cold came again, and the glaciers reached a secondary peak about the time of Christ. Again the climate grew warm, allowing Scandinavians to live happily in Greenland. Then came another cold period and the Greenland Norse disappeared...