Ocean's Story; or, Triumphs of Thirty Centuries Maritime Adventures, Achievements, Explorations, Discoveries and Inventions; and of the Rise and Progress of Ship-Building and Ocean Navigation, from the Ark to the Iron Steamships

CHAPTER IX.--The Scandinavian Sailors--Their Piracies and

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Commerce--The Anglo-Saxons--Alfred the Great a Ship-Builder--The Voyage of Beowulf--Discovery of Iceland by the Danes--Discovery of Greenland--The Voyage of Bjarni and Leif to the American Continent--Their Discovery of Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Nantucket, and Massachusetts--Adventures of Thorwald and Thorfinn--Comparison of the Discoveries of the Northmen with those of Columbus 99