Dutch And Quaker Colonies in America
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If Hudson had spent much time in Hol- land he could hardly have failed to know something about the language, which is so like our own and so easy to learn.
It was Hudson's friend Van Meteren who declared that Eng- lish was only " broken Dutch." 1 But Hudson in 1608 knew scarcely a word of Dutch. In the fourteenth century, a set of sailing directions for the northern seas was written in Ice- landic by Ivar Bardsen, steward of the bishopric of Gardar, in Greenland. This was translated into Dutch ...about 1592 by the illustrious pilot, William Barendz, of whom I gave some account in the preceding chapter. When this version was shown to Hudson he was unable to use it, and it was then translated into English for his especial behoof. This English version, used by Hudson, was published at Albany in 1869. As for Hudson's name, the Dutch contract drawn up by Dutch lawyers at Amsterdam, under which he sailed, calls him Henry. Instead of being half naturalized in Hol- land, he was evidently a stranger there, invited because of 1 William Bradford, on the other hand, an excellent linguist, calls Dutch a "strange and uncouth language" {History of the Plimoth Plantation, p.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
If Hudson had spent much time in Hol- land he could hardly have failed to know something about the language, which is so like our own and so easy to learn.
It was Hudson's friend Van Meteren who declared that Eng- lish was only " broken Dutch." 1 But Hudson in 1608 knew scarcely a word of Dutch. In the fourteenth century, a set of sailing directions for the northern seas was written in Ice- landic by Ivar Bardsen, steward of the bishopric of Gardar, in Greenland. This was translated into Dutch ...about 1592 by the illustrious pilot, William Barendz, of whom I gave some account in the preceding chapter. When this version was shown to Hudson he was unable to use it, and it was then translated into English for his especial behoof. This English version, used by Hudson, was published at Albany in 1869. As for Hudson's name, the Dutch contract drawn up by Dutch lawyers at Amsterdam, under which he sailed, calls him Henry. Instead of being half naturalized in Hol- land, he was evidently a stranger there, invited because of 1 William Bradford, on the other hand, an excellent linguist, calls Dutch a "strange and uncouth language" {History of the Plimoth Plantation, p.
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