From 6fd3e4e453f154b53f046e25d7c9f4f32caa48de Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jacob Signorovitch Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2025 21:35:07 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] There are things that have been written. --- Paper.md | 17 ++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Paper.md b/Paper.md index e72777b..2b153a0 100644 --- a/Paper.md +++ b/Paper.md @@ -97,7 +97,21 @@ on Native American language: > we can see in Horsford's *Discovery of America by Northmen* to what a > fanciful extent a confident enthusiasm can carry it.[@WinsNar89, 98-99] -{{{THAT GUY WHO SAID HE WAS WRONG HORSFORD STARTS HIS FIRST BOOK WITH HIM }}} -- WinsNar89 +Horsford begins his next book on the Vikings, *The Problem of the Northmen*, by +directly addressing Winsor's comment,[@HorsProb89, 1] demonstrating that he was +willing to openly spar with historians to defend his theory. Horsford's belief +and confidence that there were Nordic elements present in Native American +language may have been informed by his early years with the Seneca in New York. +Horsford then continues to present evidence for the location of Leif Erickson's +houses: "If anyone interested will walk from the junction of Elmwood Avenue +with Mt. Auburn Street [...] he will be at the site of the objects of interest +which had once been there, and which I had predicted might there be +found."[@HorsProb89, 14] Horsford is remarkably confident in his claims, +inviting his audience to see the evidence for themselves. He claims there are +"inequalities of the surface," which are "the remains of two long log houses, +and huts, or cots."[@HorsProb89, 14] He states they are arranged "'some nearer, +some farther from the water,' as the sagas say,"[@HorsProb89, 14] again using +the sagas as a primary source of proof for his theory. Include part by that historian who wrote about how wrong he was[@HorsProb89, 1] @@ -119,6 +133,7 @@ The city of Norumbega was the last vestige of viking occupation It is unclear when or how Horsford first heard about the myth of Norumbega, but it is possible it was widely known at the time. A newspaper (((TIME AND PAPER HERE))) mentions the myth in passing, well before Horsford + made it regionally famous. \pagebreak