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Word: norseman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Norseman may have stayed in Greenland for a few weeks or several years. Eventually he embarked again, sailed westward through Hudson Strait into Hudson Bay, whose waters his party found teeming with cod and salmon, the shores abounding with caribou, musk ox, ducks, geese, loons. From the southern shore of Hudson Bay, they journeyed inland through a chain of lakes and rivers, finally started overland on an Indian portage which leads to Lake Superior. In Ontario, some two miles from a place now named Beardmore, the Norseman died or was killed by Indians. He was buried there with his sword...

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

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