Book: The Dawn Of Canadian History: A Chronicle This whole story of the Greenland settlement is historical fact which cannot be doubted. Partly by accident and partly by design, the Norsemen had been carried from Norway to the Orkneys and the Hebrides and Iceland, and from there to Greenland. This having happened, it was natural that their ships should go beyond Greenland itself. During the four hundred years in which the Norse ships went from Europe to Greenland, their navigators had neither chart nor compass, and they sailed huge open boats, carrying only a great square sail.
Details of Book: The Dawn Of Canadian History: A Chronicle Book: The Dawn Of Canadian History: A Chronicle
Author: Stephen Leacock
ISBN: 141915866X
ISBN-13: 9781419158667
, 978-1419158667
Binding: Paperback
Publishing Date: Jun 2004
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Number of Pages: 52
Language: English