The World's Columbian Exposition 1893. Chicago, U.S.A. 1893
Official Catalogue With Illustrations issued by the Royal Danish Commission

I. About 900 years ago the Icelander Leif the Fortunate s ship sailed along the east coast of North America. He came from the North, from Greenland, now a colony of Denmark. Thirty-five men were pulling the oars, and a fair wind was filling the sails. He saw the Stoneland, the Woodland and the Vineland, as he called the new tracts of land he visited; he spent the winter in Vineland. In a word the American con- tinent was discovered and visited five hundred years befoie Columbus set foot upon the coasts of Guanahan. Ay! even before Leif Bjarni Herjulfsson had seen it. Other Northmen followed, and for a long space of time the popular traditions told of their adventurous expeditions. The saga-loving people of Iceland put them down in writing. One of these records is to be found in the manuscript that was kept for a long time at the island oiFlatey in the bay of »Breidafjord«, and in which Icelandic priests about 1375, or more than a hundred years before Columbus, gathered all reports about Norway and the Norwegian kings they could lay hold on. In the saga of Olaf Tryggvason we find the piece Grænlendinga pdttr (the Greenlanders tale) narrating the