Early Voyages to America a Paper Read Before the Society
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After her return from Rome, Gudride remain ed with her son at Glaumbae for awhile, and then entered a convent, where she passed the remainder of her life. The next voyage to Vinland was made in 1011, and from this time voyages thither became frequent. In 1059 ^ is said that an Irish priest named John went there to Christ ianize the natives and was murdered by them, while Erik, called the first bishop of Greenland, is also said to have sail ed for Vinland in 1121. The latest account is of a voya...ge to Markland in 1347 by a ship from Greenland. By this it is seen that inter course with Vinland was kept up until the middle of the fourteenth century. This brings us near the date of the voyage claimed to have been made to the Western Continent by Nicolo Zeno, in 1380. The Venetians made frequent voyages to the North of Europe at this time, and had commercial in tercourse with the Scandinavians. On the famous map, made after his return by Zeno, and which he hung up in his palace at Venice, a map which has been the subject of much curious study to geographers for EARLY VOYAGES TO AMERICA.
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