Excerpt from America Not Discovered by Columbus: An Historical Sketch of the Discovery of America by the Norsemen in the Tenth Century IN preparing this sketch, the author has freely made use Of such material as he considered valuable for his purpose from the works Of Torfaeus, C. C. Rafn, J. T. Smith, N. L. Beamish, Gr. Gra vier, B. F. De Costa, A. Davis, Washington Irving, R. M. Ballantyne, P. A. Munch, R. Keyser, and others, and he is under special Obligations to Dr. S. H. Carpenter, Of the University Of Wisconsin, for valuable suggestions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.