Word: historians
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Iceland's Heroic Age exrends from the settlement of the island to 1067. Ari, Iceland's greatest scholar and historian, possessed in a marked degree abilities for historical writing. He was a priest-chief, and was a devout Christian, but he cherished none the less the traditions of his country. He was more than a mere chronicler, he was an historian, possessing an appreciation of the true relations of events one to the other. He was the father of Icelandic letters...
Thursday, Nov. 26. - The life of a priest and scholar in the eleventh century. Ari the historian, and the works ascribed to him; Islendinga bok, Landnama bok and Kristni Saga; histories of the settlement of Iceland and of its conversion to Christianity...
...Daniel S. Lamont, Union '72, Honorary President; Frank G. Cook, Harvard '82, Active President; W. H. P. Faunce Brown '80, Orator; W. J. Warburton, Collumbia '90, Poet; G. R. Mathews, Adelbert '84, Historian...
...Daniel S. Lamont, Union '72, Honorary President; Frank G. Cook, Harvard '82, Active President; W. H. P. Faunce Brown '80, Orator; W. J. Warburton, Collumbia '90, Poet; G. R. Mathews, Adelbert '84, Historian...
Thursday, Nov. 26. - The life of a priest and scholar in the eleventh century. Art the historian, and the works ascribed to him; Islendinga bok, Landnama bok and Kristni Saga; histories of the settlement of Iceland and of its conversion to Christianity...