From c39768d527cd806791a17fa4e14710383c1150ad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jacob Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2025 21:07:34 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] There are changes that have been made. --- Comments.md | 5 +++++ Paper.md | 4 ++-- 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) create mode 100644 Comments.md diff --git a/Comments.md b/Comments.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..51b6aa3 --- /dev/null +++ b/Comments.md @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +I think what's best here is you know where to go next -- I do think though there's a lot x to do still in deciding whether this is a funny story of obsession or part of a larger anti-Itallian pro-Nordic sway... I hope you feel well + +Is the story of the descovery of america challenged in other places, and how? (search google books for leif too?) + + diff --git a/Paper.md b/Paper.md index 11aeefc..0791899 100644 --- a/Paper.md +++ b/Paper.md @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ with spiral staircase and ramparts, weathered and stained with time, looking distinctly out of place within earshot of I-95. The story of how it came to be there involves Vikings, a baking soda magnate, the discovery of America, and, at the center of it all, the city of Norumbega. As one explores the area, the -name comes up again and again; a map will tell you the structure's name is +name comes up again and again: a map will tell you the structure's name is Norumbega Tower, and running alongside is Norumbega Road. Further south, one finds a Norumbega Park, and another road called Norumbega Court. This paper will explore how one man in the late 19th century, Eben Norton Horsford, @@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ 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, +found."[@HorsProb89, 14] Here 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,