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

HISTORICAL NOTES I4I Leif the Fortunate was christianised in Norway during the reign of Olaf Tryggvason, and, at the request of the latter, he carried Christianity to Greenland where Icelandic emigrants had settled down. But nevertheless he was animated by the old Norse viking spirit. His father, Eric the Red, was a great man-slayer. The crew on board Leifs ship wcie, no doubt, warriors with sword and shield, and the tones of the lur (a horn or war-trumpet) are sure to have sounded in America as in the numerous expeditions to other places where- to victorious vikings proceeded, as Russia, England and France, nay Spain and Italy, founding states everywhere. The characteristic strong-sounding lur may be called the special instrument of the Norsemen, they having used it not only in the historic, but even in far remoter times. At the National Museum of Copenhagen, so marvellously rich in antiquities, no less than nineteen lurs are found; they are supposed to belong to the so-called bronze age, fixed at about a thousand years before Christ. These most interesting in- struments have, in these latter days, met with their investi- gator. The student of musical history, Mr. Angul Hummerich P. D. has, with the permission of the Directors, thoroughly examined the lurs preserved which, as a rule, have been found by pairs; this, no doubt, is due to something more than a mere chance. In fact, Dr. Hammerich has shown that these instruments are always in unison by pairs; and in his opinion they prove, on the whole, that the inhabitants of Denniaik, at those remote times, had a knowledge of music. Received with great cheers he has drawn forth anew the tones perhaps more than three thousand years old; and the news of the unique event spread like a wild-fire all round the world. So high is the age of these lurs, found in the Danish moois, and