Tamers of the sea the Northmen in America from the tenth to the fifteenth century

• Main Author: Neukomm, Edmond, 1840-
• Other Authors: Hoey, Frances Cashel, 1830-1908, translator
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Sampson, Low, Marston and Company 1897
• Subjects: Fiction; Bird Island; Newfoundland; Newfoundland studies
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/cns2/id/141398

Tamers of the Sea A short history of this book -- Discovery of America by the Norsemen in the year one thousand. Herwolf, the last of the sea-kings -- Bjorn Herwolfson discovers a continent -- Leif Erikson -- Vinland -- Conclusive evidence -- The Norsemen's colonies in America from the tenth to the fourteenth century. The baptism of Erik the Red -- One "dead, yet speaking" -- A blank voyage -- Bird Island -- The Skrellings -- The Dighton rock -- The end of a hero -- The queen of Vinland -- An expedition to the south of Vinland -- Syasi-the-fair -- Bjorn Kappi -- The bishops -- The end of Vinland -- America re-discovered at the end of the fourteenth century. Northern expeditions -- From Newfoundland to the Gulf of Mexico -- Beyond the seas -- The Dieppe men in Brazil four years before the expedition of Christopher Columbus. Jean Cousin -- The bombardment of Dieppe -- The Spanish lieutenant -- Epilogue Translated from the French