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Title: A guide-book to Norumbega and Vineland
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Shepard, Elizabeth G
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Publisher: Boston, Damrell & Upham
Contributing Library: Claire T. Carney Library, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Digitizing Sponsor: Claire T. Carney Library, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

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^ gathered, to the fireside where stories ofhome must have been told over and over again,and Avhere plans for life in the new countrywere discussed and brought to an issue.The story of The storv of the naminof of Vineland has the naming of • ^ Vineland. often been told. Let me repeat it: In Leifs company was a man named Tyrker,a German, who had been for a long time in thehousehold of Leifs father, Eric the Red. Oneevening he was missing, and his absence causedLeif much uneasiness. Leif had cautioned hismen not to wander far away, and his anxietyincreasing, he started out with twelve of hiscompanions to seek Tyrker. They had gonebut a short distance when they met him in anexceedingly meny mood. He held in his handa bunch of grapes and rolled his eyes, talkingexcitedly in German. He was small and uglyand had a little wizened face, so that his fan-tastic actions were all the more grotesque.As he approached Leif he addressed him in
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Plan of Site of Northmans Landing NORUMBEGA AND VIXELAND. lb the Norse tongue, exclaiming: I strayed notfar away, but I have sonetliing strange torelate. I have found vii. ;c« rra s ^ ich asgrow in Germany wlic-e ^ Thereupon he dan^e^ it was not strange, for the c.back the associations of liis ch From this incident Leif nax t uuncry Yineland — a place where vines grew wild,bearing grapes. In the sprincr they sailed away to Greenland, Leif returns \ , to Greenland, carrying with them a rich cargo of grapes and masur wood. The next expedition made to Yineland ^\as in Tborvaid Ericsson sails the summer of 1002, Avhen Thorvald Ericsson, a to Viueiand.brother to Leif, made a voyage in the ship thatLeif loaned to him. No particulars of this expe-dition are given until Leifs houses are reached. Thorvald, with his company of thirty men, Thorvald , . , , , . 1 . 1 makes explor- remamed quiet through the winter, and in the ations.spring of 1003 explored the Charles, findingshallows and islan

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