EM EM : monthly magazine - 01.09.1941, Blaðsíða 4

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land coloniats and by the Icelander
Thorfinn Karlsefni. They stayed a
few years there, but were too few
in number to be able to stand
against the hordes of the aborigi-
nes, the Red Indians. They there-
fore left the country for good.
This was both sad and unfortun-
ate, for if everything had gone
according to “plan” as the Ger-
mans say, we might have colo-
nized the whole North-American
continent. Well, perhaps, not the
whole of it, but a goodsized slice,
af least.
Probably the Greenlanders and
their descendants made many
voyages to the shores of the New
World for wood, grain and grapes.
But they never gained a perma-
nent footing there, and the Green-
land colonies disappeared, probab-
ly late in the 15th century, so
when John Davis reached the
„Land of Desolation" (=Green-
land) in 1585 or thereabout, he
found no white men there.
Scholars think the whites merg-
ed into the North-American
trikes. But this is a question which
in all reasonable. probability will
never be definitely settled.
The shape of the earth (orbis terrarum), as our forefathers imagin-
ed it (the line from north to south is the meridian that goes through
Greenwich). 1 North-Perm. 2 South-Perm. 3—4 Greenland. 5—7
Davids Strait. 8 Baffin Land. 9 Hudson Bay. 10 Newfoundland.
11 Furðustrandir (= southem coast of Labrador). 12 Streamfirth.
13 Bjarn Island by Newfoundland. 14 Bjam Island Bay. 15 The
Wineland Peninsule = The point stretching north from the main-
land. 16 Wineland. 17 The Central Sea. 18 Iceland. 19 The New
Land. 20 Spitzbergen. 21 The Giants’ Bay (= The Greenland Sea).
22 The Great Ocean (The Red Ocean).
Here is a view of Umanak, fishing colony on the west coast of Greenland, world’s largcst isíar.d, which the
United States has taken under its protection. The government signed the agreemer.t with the ministei of
exiled King Christian, making Greenland a virtnal U. S. protectorate, following reports thaí German
________________________ waxnlanes have been flvinv over tha Danish island.