The Scandinavian Races

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Excerpt from The Scandinavian Races: The Northmen, The Sea-Kings and Vikings, Their Manners and Customs, Discoveries, Maritime Expeditions, Struggles and Wars Up to Present Time Although soon after my arrival in the city of N ew-york, about two years ago, learning by experience, what already long had been known to me, the great attention the enlightened pcpu lation of the United States pay to science and the arts, and that they admit that unquestion able truth, that the very best blessings are the intellectual, I was, however, soon aware, that Scandinavian affairs. Were too little known in this country. Induced by that ardent patriotism peculiar to the Norsemen, I immediately re solved, as far as it lay in my power, to throw some light upon this, here, almost term incog nita, and compose a brief History of Scandinavia, which once was the arbiter of the European system, and by which America, in reality, had been discovered as much as upwards of 'five. 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.