Compare commits
23 Commits
d80eb389b5
...
master
Author | SHA1 | Date | |
---|---|---|---|
b42f548419 | |||
de71cd4502 | |||
f25638a100 | |||
51106fc859 | |||
2015408aef | |||
c39768d527 | |||
6cebb18f8a | |||
6fd3e4e453 | |||
be03a36d75 | |||
9ee4588cbb | |||
eefebaa45a | |||
6f30e4a3f0 | |||
99fe01cd65 | |||
e2d31da501 | |||
26f01cb974 | |||
f84ca6d7fd | |||
6457f9323d | |||
699cacad9f | |||
e3e2c8c914 | |||
99a6ec7f62 | |||
ea532bf4c9 | |||
6ba34cda5a | |||
41e10736d3 |
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
|
||||
# Bibliography
|
||||
|
||||
Wow,[@AdamsMemBiog08] look[@FlemPicHist95] at[@JackHors92] all[@LeporeThese18] these[@WeiseDis84] references![@KirsNor98]
|
||||
[@AdamsMemBiog08] [@FlemPicHist95][@GreeneLife37] all[@] these[@] references![@KirsNor98]
|
||||
|
||||
\pagebreak
|
||||
|
||||
|
5
Comments.md
Normal file
5
Comments.md
Normal file
@@ -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?)
|
||||
|
||||
|
115
Draft.md
115
Draft.md
@@ -1,22 +1,123 @@
|
||||
# Intro Paragraph
|
||||
---
|
||||
header-includes:
|
||||
- \usepackage{setspace}
|
||||
- \doublespacing
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
# First Body Paragraph: How did the Myth Emerge
|
||||
Not sure exactly what my thesis will be, but something about the evolution of
|
||||
the myth; how it began, how it evolved, and how people used it over time. It
|
||||
initially survived because of geographical ambiguity, and was rediscovered by
|
||||
Horsford. He introduced Vikings into the myth, most likely as an expression of
|
||||
anti-catholic/anti-irish sentiment to take the credit of discovering america
|
||||
away from Columbus. Horsfod was also an interesting guy, a lot to write about
|
||||
him. Unclear why exactly he was so keen on building monuments to Ericsson, and
|
||||
why he was so convinced he landed in Massachusetts -- still the in the process
|
||||
of reading his books on the subject.
|
||||
|
||||
# Paragraph 1: The First Mentions of the Myth, and some of its Founding Properties
|
||||
|
||||
The myth of Norumbega can trace its beginnings back to the Age of Exploration.
|
||||
The first description of Norumbega as a city was in 1548, on a map by Giacomo
|
||||
Gastaldi[@KirsNor98, 34]. How it found its way there is
|
||||
Gastaldi.[@KirsNor98, 34] How it found its way there is
|
||||
|
||||
As with many myths and legengs, "just about everything concerning Norumbega is
|
||||
in dispute" [@KirsNor98, 35]. However,
|
||||
in dispute."[@KirsNor98, 35]
|
||||
|
||||
Tracing the etymology of the name "Norumbega" reveals much about the Age of
|
||||
Exploration.
|
||||
|
||||
The first person to explore the area associated with Norumbega was Giovanni da
|
||||
Verrazzano in 1524.[@KirsNor98, 36] Recounting his journey in a letter, he
|
||||
described a pleasant harbor inhabited by friendly and civil
|
||||
natives.[@KirsNor98, 39]. They were "very like the manner of the ancients" and
|
||||
practiced "more systematic cultivation [of crops] than the other
|
||||
tribes."[@KirsNor98, 39] "More civilized" natives seems to have been from the
|
||||
beginning a core aspect of the myth of Norumbega. Verrazzano named this place
|
||||
*Refugio*, "on account of its beauty."[@KirsNor98, 39]
|
||||
|
||||
# Second Body Paragraph: How it was used in the Age of Exploration
|
||||
They are "now believed to have been [in] the area around Narragansett Bay,
|
||||
Rhode Island,"[@KirsNor98, 39] far distant from where Norumbega would
|
||||
eventually be described. However, due to geographical ambiguity at the time,
|
||||
Verrazzano's *Refugio* nevertheless became "at the heart of the Norumbega
|
||||
legend."[@KirsNor98, 39] Five years later, Giovanni's brother Girolamo marked a
|
||||
"small inlet labelled *oranbega.*"[@KirsNor98, 35] Around fifteen years after
|
||||
that, Jean Alafonce, sailing up a river we know now to have been the Penobscot,
|
||||
described a city called *Norombegue*.[@KirsNor98, 40-41] Just as with
|
||||
Varrazzano's *Refugio*, Alafonce described "clever inhabitants [...] The people
|
||||
used many words which sound like Latin and worship the sun, and they are fair
|
||||
people and tall."[@KirsNor98, 41] Over time, these similar stories of civilized
|
||||
natives and a river combined to form the basis for the myth of
|
||||
Norumbega.[@KirsNor98, 41]
|
||||
|
||||
# Third Body Paragraph: How it was used in the Late 19th Century
|
||||
# Later Developments of the Myth in the Age of Exploration
|
||||
|
||||
# Conclusion
|
||||
Another factor that may have contributed to the idea Norumbega as a city was
|
||||
the philosophy of natural harmony. "Many Renaissance cosmographers subscribed
|
||||
to the philosophy [which stated] the physical world was governed by laws
|
||||
ensuring perfect equilibrium."[@KirsNor98, 35] "Accordingly, when Europeans
|
||||
heard about the New World, they anticipated that it would contain at least an
|
||||
embryonic counterpart of features of the geography and human behavior of the
|
||||
Old World."[@KirsNor98, 35] This may have contributed to the city's association
|
||||
with more civilized inhabitants.
|
||||
|
||||
# How the Myth Found new Popularity in the Late 19th Century
|
||||
|
||||
The myth of Norumbega saw a brief resurgence in late 19th century Boston. Eben
|
||||
Norton Horsford was a chemist working in Boston, best known for his work in
|
||||
baking powder.[@HorsBread61] Throughout his life, however, he showed some
|
||||
interest in history and archaeology. He would collect fossils around his
|
||||
father's farm in Moscow (now Leister) New York where he grew up,[@JackHors92,
|
||||
340] and expressed interest in learning the language of the Seneca
|
||||
Indians[@JackHors92, 340], to which his father worked as a
|
||||
missionary.[@JackHors92, 103] Later in his life, he would often visit his
|
||||
wife's family's estate on Shelter Island, New York.[@AdamsMemBiog08, 104]
|
||||
There, he became interested in the island's history and "erected a monument to
|
||||
the Quakers, who found shelter there from Puritan
|
||||
persecution."[@AdamsMemBiog08, 104] He would later repeat this pattern of
|
||||
interest and monument construction in Massachusetts.
|
||||
|
||||
It'd be nice to include a bit about how Horsford came about the myth here. Also
|
||||
whether it was Norumbega or the Viking sagas he learned about first. -- After
|
||||
more research, seems like he was interested in Vikings first and only later
|
||||
made the connection to Norumbega.
|
||||
|
||||
Horsford did not take up the myth unchanged, however. He became convinced the
|
||||
city of Norumbega was the remains of a Norse settlement.
|
||||
|
||||
In 1887,[@HorsDisc87, 10] Horsford unveiled a large bronze statue of the viking
|
||||
Leif Ericsson,[@GuttVal18, 86] who was known at the time as the first European
|
||||
to have set foot in America. However what was unknown, and would remain so
|
||||
until the late 20th century, was where exactly Leif had landed. Horsford was
|
||||
convinced, however, that Leif had landed in Massachusetts. In his dedication of
|
||||
the statue, he explained his reasoning:
|
||||
|
||||
> ...if you will be kind enough to hold up to your mind's eye, now for a
|
||||
> moment, any familiar map of North America. Look at the east coast. From
|
||||
> Greenland, along the line to the southwest, you will notice three projections
|
||||
> into the sea. They are Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, and Cape Cod.[@HorsDisc87,
|
||||
> 9]
|
||||
|
||||
He disregards Newfoundland as an option, saying "[it] is bold, rocky,
|
||||
mountainous, of meagre vegetation, and with few beaches."[@HorsDisc87, 10]
|
||||
Ironically, the best evidence archaeologists have now for the location of
|
||||
Vinland is L'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland.
|
||||
|
||||
Include part by that historian who wrote about how wrong he was[@HorsProb89, 1]
|
||||
|
||||
Summary of Horsford's defense, letter to judge Daly source[@HorsProb89]
|
||||
|
||||
Write about Horsford's "archaeology," what he says he found, his methods
|
||||
|
||||
Write about the dedication of the Norumbega Tower
|
||||
|
||||
Write about how Horsford connected his interest in Vikings and Leif Ericsson to
|
||||
the myth of Norumbega -- his interest in Native American language and how that
|
||||
let him make the connection.
|
||||
|
||||
Horsford read about how Alafonce described the natives of Norumbega speaking
|
||||
something closer to Latin; he interpreted that as being influenced by Norse.
|
||||
|
||||
The city of Norumbega was the last vestige of viking occupation
|
||||
|
||||
\pagebreak
|
||||
# References
|
||||
|
@@ -45,6 +45,10 @@
|
||||
- Also has religious elements, just as the Norumbega myth & Protestantism
|
||||
vs. Catholicism.
|
||||
|
||||
## Baking Powder
|
||||
|
||||
-
|
||||
|
||||
## Later Life and Interest in Norumbega
|
||||
|
||||
- "In the comparative leisure of his later years he became deeply interested in
|
||||
@@ -73,6 +77,10 @@
|
||||
the third grade of the Order of Danneborg."[@AdamsMemBiog08, p.105]
|
||||
- Seems his ideas were well-received by former Vikings.
|
||||
|
||||
"in the mid 16th century the name Norumbega reffered to the Penobscot Bay
|
||||
area and, by extension, to what is now Maine and southern New Brunswick" b/c of GIROlamo Verrazzano (map guy) refugio -> oranbega
|
||||
[@KirsNor98, 35]
|
||||
|
||||
## Other Doings
|
||||
|
||||
- "Wellesley College was the object of his largest benefactions (...) He
|
||||
|
5
HorsfordNorumbega.md
Normal file
5
HorsfordNorumbega.md
Normal file
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
|
||||
# The Myth of Norumbega
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
\pagebreak
|
||||
# References
|
2
Makefile
2
Makefile
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
|
||||
BIB = bibliography.bib
|
||||
STYLE = chicago-fullnote.csl
|
||||
STYLE = chicago.csl
|
||||
|
||||
%: %.md
|
||||
pandoc $^ -o $@.pdf --bibliography=$(BIB) --csl=$(STYLE) --pdf-engine=xelatex --citeproc
|
||||
|
234
Paper.md
Normal file
234
Paper.md
Normal file
@@ -0,0 +1,234 @@
|
||||
---
|
||||
header-includes:
|
||||
- \usepackage{setspace}
|
||||
- \AtBeginEnvironment{quote}{\singlespacing}
|
||||
- \doublespacing
|
||||
title: |
|
||||
\huge Eben Norton Horsford
|
||||
\huge and the Legend of Norumbega
|
||||
author: Jacob Signorovitch
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
\maketitle
|
||||
|
||||
In Weston, Massachusetts, across the Charles River from Brandeis University, an
|
||||
unusual structure rises among the trees; a forty foot stone tower, complete
|
||||
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 Legend of Norumbega. As one explores the
|
||||
surrounding area, the name appears 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 nineteenth century, Eben
|
||||
Norton Horsford, combined Norse sagas and a New England *El Dorado* into a
|
||||
theory for the original discovery of America, what motivated him to do so, and
|
||||
the legacy he left behind.
|
||||
|
||||
The Legend of Norumbega originated in the sixteenth century, during the Age of
|
||||
Exploration. To European explorers, it was variously a town, city, or country,
|
||||
somewhere along the coast of New England, inhabited by amiable and civilized
|
||||
natives. First given the name *Nurumberg* by Giacomo Gastaldi in a 1548 edition
|
||||
of Ptolemy's Geography,[@KirsNor98, 34] the myth can be traced back to a
|
||||
conflation of two separate accounts. The first is that of Giovanni da
|
||||
Verrazzano, a Florentine explorer under King Francis I of
|
||||
France. He was one of the first Europeans to explore the
|
||||
area around Narragansett Bay in 1524[@KirsNor98, 36, 39], and recounted his
|
||||
experiences in a letter to the king. He described a pleasant harbor inhabited
|
||||
by friendly and civil natives.[@KirsNor98, 39] They practiced "more systematic
|
||||
cultivation [of crops] than the other tribes," and were "very like the manner
|
||||
of the ancients [i.e., western antiquity]."[@KirsNor98, 39] In the letter,
|
||||
Verrazzano names the place *refugio*, "on account of its beauty."[@KirsNor98,
|
||||
39] Despite Narragansett Bay being quite far from where Norumbega would
|
||||
eventually be described, geographical ambiguity would allow his account to become
|
||||
"at the heart of the Norumbega legend."[@KirsNor98, 39] Specifically, the
|
||||
mention of a "more civilized" tribe of natives would continue to be a core aspect of
|
||||
the legend in all future renditions. The second account, which lends the
|
||||
myth its name and location, is that of Jean Alfonce de Saintonge, a pilot on
|
||||
Jacques Cartier's exploration of the Penobscot Bay area.[@KirsNor98, 41]
|
||||
Sailing up the Penobscot River, which he called the *Norenbègue*, he described
|
||||
"a city called *Norombegue* with clever inhabitants [...] The people use many
|
||||
words which sound like Latin and worship the sun, and they are fair people and
|
||||
tall."[@KirsNor98, 41] These two accounts, Varrazzano's *refugio* and
|
||||
Saintonge's *Norombegue*, eventually merged into a single myth, canonized by
|
||||
the cartographer Gastaldi, of an advanced Native American city which shared more in common with
|
||||
Europe than its neighbors.[@KirsNor98, 41]
|
||||
|
||||
Over the centuries that followed, more accurate maps and exploration revealed Norumbega
|
||||
not as the advanced society it was believed to be but only "a settlement on the
|
||||
outer Penobscot shore."[@KirsNor98, 55] Still, the myth lay dormant, disproven
|
||||
yet still alluring. Enter Eben Norton Horsford, a mid-nineteenth century
|
||||
chemist working in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Best known for his invention of
|
||||
modern baking powder,[@JackHors92, 343] Horsford had long harbored an interest
|
||||
in history and archaeology. He collected fossils around his father's farm in
|
||||
Moscow (now Leister), New York where he grew up,[@JackHors92, 340] and became
|
||||
interested in learning the language of the Seneca Indians[@JackHors92, 340] to
|
||||
which his father worked as a missionary.[@JackHors92, 103] Later, he would
|
||||
often visit his wife's family estate on Shelter Island, New
|
||||
York,[@AdamsMemBiog08, 104] where he became interested in the island's history.
|
||||
He even "erected a monument to the Quakers, who found shelter there from
|
||||
Puritan persecution."[@AdamsMemBiog08, 104] This pattern of research and
|
||||
monument building would be repeated several times throughout Horsford's life,
|
||||
culminating in Norumbega Tower. Horsford's most famous accomplishment, and how
|
||||
he was able to fund these projects, would come in 1856 with his invention of a
|
||||
revolutionary new baking powder recipe without a fermentation
|
||||
step.[@JackHors92, 343] He founded the Rumford Chemical Works, named after a
|
||||
position he held at Harvard, which would make him a fortune.[@JackHors92, 343] While in Cambridge, Horsford became fascinated by
|
||||
the possibility of Vikings in New England. This idea had some
|
||||
precedent;[@FlemPicHist95, 1079] in 1841, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote *The
|
||||
Skeleton in Armour*, a poem interpreting a body discovered in
|
||||
Fall River, Massachusetts[^2] to be that of a Norse warrior.[@LongBall41, 29-41] But it was with Horsford the
|
||||
idea came to be most associated.[@FlemPicHist95, 1080] In 1887,[@HorsDisc87,
|
||||
10] Horsford wrote the dedication for a large bronze statue of
|
||||
the Viking Explorer Leif Erickson,[@GuttVal18, 86] commending him for his early discovery of America. On
|
||||
this point, modern scholars agree; archaeological evidence at L'Anse aux
|
||||
Meadows in Newfoundland constitutes a "pre-1492 presence of Europeans in the
|
||||
Americas."[@LedgeHorz19, 2] According to Icelandic sagas, it was here Erickson
|
||||
built the settlement of *Vinland*. Horsford, however, believed Erickson to have
|
||||
sailed far further south after making the continent, all the way down to Cape
|
||||
Cod. He defended his reasoning by referring to the sagas:
|
||||
|
||||
> I might dwell at some length, if time would permit, upon other interesting
|
||||
> features of the relations of the Sagas:
|
||||
> 1. For example, one of very great significance is that of the extraordinary
|
||||
> height of the tide at high water [...] In the bottom of Massachusetts Bay,
|
||||
> as you know, the tides rise from ten to twelve feet, while south of Cape
|
||||
> Cod peninsula they rise but from three to five feet.
|
||||
> [...]
|
||||
> 5. Of the grapes which the German Tyrker, who was of Leifs crew, discovered,
|
||||
> and of which, as a native of a wine country, weary of his ship's rations,
|
||||
> he doubtless over-ate, there were then, as now, a plenty on the shores of
|
||||
> Massachusetts Bay and along the St. Lawrence. Jacques Cartier speaks of
|
||||
> them as early as 1535.
|
||||
|
||||
Here, Horsford also mentions that he has read the accounts of Cartier; this may
|
||||
have helped him later make the connection between Vikings and Norumbega. But
|
||||
for now, he was only interested in Erickson. When he published the dedication,
|
||||
titled *The Discovery of America by Northmen*, his theories drew the ire of
|
||||
contemporary historians. Presumably, many were upset a professor of Chemistry
|
||||
thought himself more knowledgeable in their field than they were. One
|
||||
author, Justin Winsor, found issue with Horsford's theory that Vikings had left
|
||||
a noticeable imprint on Native American language:
|
||||
|
||||
> Nothing could be slenderer than the alleged correspondences of languages, and
|
||||
> 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]
|
||||
|
||||
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] Here Horsford was 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 drawing
|
||||
on the sagas as his primary source. Outside of just Horsford, there existed a
|
||||
wider movement around the promotion of Leif Erickson in the late nineteenth
|
||||
century. Newspapers at the time rarely mention Erickson without mentioning his
|
||||
preceding Columbus,[^1] which may have been part of a widespread anti-Italian
|
||||
and anti-Catholic sentiment. Several other proponents of Vikings in New England
|
||||
also believed "the 'Aryan race,' in particular its 'Teutonic' [i.e., German]
|
||||
branch, was superior to all others."[@FlemPicHist95, 1078] Horsford, however,
|
||||
seems to have only been interested in Erickson and never brings up racial
|
||||
superiority or a disdain for Columbus. In fact, he states that Erickson's prior
|
||||
discovery of America "would dim, by the measure of the faintest Indian-summer
|
||||
haze only, the transcendent glory of the life-work of Columbus."[@HorsDisc90,
|
||||
16] So, while some of the enthusiasm around Horsford's work may have been
|
||||
motivated by a desire to diminish Columbus as an expression of pro-Nordic
|
||||
anti-Italian sentiment, it seems the man himself was driven by his own
|
||||
curiosity in what he saw as little-researched historical possibility.
|
||||
|
||||
It was during one of his visits to Shelter island when "a chance reference let
|
||||
fall by one of his guests" would introduce Horsford to the legend of
|
||||
Norumbega.[@JackHors92, 344] The term seems to have been widely known in New
|
||||
England at the time; both an article from the Worcester Daily Spy in 1875 and
|
||||
one from the Vermont Phoenix in 1894 mention Norumbega in passing, the reader
|
||||
assumed to be familiar. Horsford, having grown up in New York, was only
|
||||
introduced to the myth after his retirement and became energetically intrigued.
|
||||
He read the accounts of Alafonce and Verrazzano, and describes them in one of
|
||||
his books.[@HorsDisc90, 14] In this same book, *Discovery of the Ancient City
|
||||
of Norumbega*, Horsford mentions the existence of so many maps that prominently
|
||||
display Norumbega that "one could not help thinking that they must have some
|
||||
foundation in truth; the alternative [would have] involved too many
|
||||
conspirators, of different nationalities."[@HorsDisc90, 13] How Horsford made
|
||||
the connection from Norumbega to Leif Erickson is a little less clear, though
|
||||
it was most likely etymological. We have seen already Horsford's early interest
|
||||
in Native American language from his early years with the Seneca in New York,
|
||||
and it seems he thought the name "Norumbega" peculiar. He describes how "many
|
||||
hundreds of years ago the country we call Norway was called Norbegia or
|
||||
Norbega,"[@HorsDisc90, 19] and that in "the Algonquin family of languages,
|
||||
which prevailed throughout New England, could not [...] utter the sound of *b*
|
||||
without prefixing to it the sound of *m*."[@HorsDisc90, 18] Thus, he reasons,
|
||||
*Norumbega* is but a Native American corruption of what the Vikings would have
|
||||
called Norway. Horsford uses physical evidence to support his claim as well. He
|
||||
mentions several instances where the first settlers of Massachusetts found
|
||||
natural dams or weirs, which could be used for fishing (the fish would be
|
||||
stopped and collect before the weir on their way upstream to
|
||||
spawn).[@HorsDisc90, 33-34] He also describes walls and other structures on the
|
||||
floor of Boston Harbor and Back Bay, evidence of "the ancient seaport of
|
||||
Norumbega."[@HorsDisc90, 37] To Horsford, all this evidence proved the
|
||||
existence of a great Viking fort of Norumbega, and necessitated the
|
||||
construction of a monument. We have seen this pattern before; once to the
|
||||
Quakers who found refuge on Shelter Island, and again in Boston to Leif
|
||||
Erickson for discovering America. To justify the monument, he gave four
|
||||
reasons:
|
||||
|
||||
> 1. It will commemorate the Discovery of Vinland and Norumbega in the
|
||||
> forty-third degree, and the identification of Norumbega with Norway, the
|
||||
> come country to which this region was once subject by right of discovery
|
||||
> and colonization.
|
||||
> 2. It will invite criticism, and so sift out any errors of interpretation
|
||||
> into which, sharing the usual fortune of the pioneer, I may have been led.
|
||||
> 3. It will encourage archæological investigation in a fascinating and almost
|
||||
> untrodden field, and be certain to contribute in the results of research
|
||||
> and exploration, both in the study and the field, to the historical
|
||||
> treasure of the Commonwealth.
|
||||
> 4. It will help, by reason of its mere presence, and by virtue of the
|
||||
> veneration with which the Tower will in time come to be regarded, to bring
|
||||
> acquiescence in the fruit of investigation, and so allay the blind
|
||||
> scepticism, amounting practically to inverted ambition, that would deprive
|
||||
> Massachusetts of the glory of holding the Landfall of Leif Erickson, and
|
||||
> at the same time the seat of the earliest colony of Europeans in
|
||||
> America.[@HorsDisc90, 40]
|
||||
|
||||
These convictions say much about the man Horsford was. As already seen from his
|
||||
comments on Columbus, he was not motivated by dislike of the Italians; rather,
|
||||
he sought to bring "the glory" of Erickson's discovery to Massachusetts, his home
|
||||
for the majority of his working life. Second, he is remarkably humble in his
|
||||
theories; this is particularly evident in his second point, and to an extent
|
||||
the third. He accepts that "the trustworthiness of my conclusions
|
||||
might be tested by the spade,"[@HorsDisc90, 41] and that he had not been
|
||||
able to do much of his own archaeology. Horsford did not build the tower to be
|
||||
himself remembered, rather to inspire others to continue his work. Indeed, the
|
||||
plaque at the base of the tower does not bear his name.
|
||||
|
||||
Eben Norton Horsford would die two years after *The Discovery* was published,
|
||||
on January first, 1893.[@AdamsMemBiog08, 103] He believed himself a pioneer; at
|
||||
the cutting edge of discovery, the first breakthrough in a movement that would
|
||||
long outlive him. After his death, however, there was little interest in
|
||||
furthering Horsford's ideas. His biographers mostly gloss over the veracity of
|
||||
his theories, focusing more on his considerable achievements in chemistry,
|
||||
large and generous donations to various colleges, and support for women's
|
||||
education.[@JackHors92, 345] The tower remains. Built to inspire an awe of
|
||||
history, it now draws confused second glances in the rear-view mirror. A
|
||||
century of wind and rain have washed out its words, and the trees it once
|
||||
dominated now cast it in shadow.
|
||||
|
||||
[^1]: Springfield Weekly, 1893
|
||||
[^2]: Unfortunately the building the body had been stored in burned down, and
|
||||
so did not last long enough to be identified by modern
|
||||
science.[@HorsDisc87, 30]
|
||||
|
||||
*.*](tower_old.jpg){width=80%}
|
||||
|
||||
*.*](tower_new.jpg){width=80%}
|
||||
|
||||
\pagebreak
|
||||
\singlespace
|
||||
# References
|
126
bibliography.bib
126
bibliography.bib
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
|
||||
editor = {New England Historic Genealogical Society},
|
||||
year = {1908},
|
||||
publisher = {New England Historic Genealogical Society},
|
||||
address = {Boston, MA},
|
||||
address = {Boston, Massachusetts},
|
||||
volume = {9},
|
||||
pages = {103--105},
|
||||
}
|
||||
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@
|
||||
title = {These Truths: A History of the United States},
|
||||
year = {2018},
|
||||
publisher = {W. W. Norton \& Company, Inc.},
|
||||
address = {New York, N.Y.},
|
||||
address = {New York City, New York},
|
||||
annote = {Review: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/indimagahist.115.4.08.}
|
||||
}
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -76,3 +76,125 @@
|
||||
year = {1998},
|
||||
annote = {From a peer reviewed academic journal, on JSTOR.},
|
||||
}
|
||||
|
||||
% https://archive.org/details/theoryartofbread00hors/
|
||||
@book{HorsBread61,
|
||||
author = {Eben Norton Horsford},
|
||||
title = {The Theory and Art of Bread-Making. A New Process Without the use of Fermet},
|
||||
year = {1861},
|
||||
publisher = {Welsh Bigelow \& Co.},
|
||||
address = {Cambridge, Massachusetts},
|
||||
annote = {A primary source, written by Horsford.}
|
||||
}
|
||||
|
||||
% https://archive.org/details/problemofnorthme00hors/page/n9/mode/2up
|
||||
@book{HorsProb89,
|
||||
author = {Eben Norton Horsford},
|
||||
title = {The Problem of the Northmen},
|
||||
year = {1889},
|
||||
publisher = {John Wilson and Son},
|
||||
address = {Cambridge, Massachusetts},
|
||||
annote = {A primary source, written by Horsford.}
|
||||
}
|
||||
|
||||
% https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/2227mq61j
|
||||
@book{HorsCook77,
|
||||
author = {Eben Norton Horsford},
|
||||
title = {Horsford's Cook Book},
|
||||
year = {1877},
|
||||
publisher = {Rumford Chemical Works},
|
||||
address = {Providence, Rhode Island},
|
||||
annote = {Primary source.}
|
||||
}
|
||||
|
||||
% https://archive.org/details/discoveryofameri00hors/page/n9/mode/2up?ref=ol&view=theater
|
||||
@book{HorsDisc87,
|
||||
author = {Eben Norton Horsford},
|
||||
title = {Discovery of America by Northmen},
|
||||
year = {1888},
|
||||
publisher = {The Riverside Press},
|
||||
address = {Cambridge, Massachusetts},
|
||||
annote = {A primary source, originally delivered orally by Horsford at the dedication of a statue of Lief Ericson in Faneuil Hall, 1887.}
|
||||
}
|
||||
|
||||
% https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/histmemo.30.2.04
|
||||
% https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/10.2979/histmemo.30.2.04.pdf?refreqid=fastly-default%3A4008a607be5aa86a3bda0ee0b695dadb&ab_segments=&initiator=&acceptTC=1
|
||||
@article{GuttVal18,
|
||||
ISSN = {0935560X, 15271994},
|
||||
URL = {https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/histmemo.30.2.04},
|
||||
author = {Torgrim Sneve Guttormsen},
|
||||
journal = {History and Memory},
|
||||
number = {2},
|
||||
pages = {79--115},
|
||||
publisher = {Indiana University Press},
|
||||
title = {Valuing Immigrant Memories as Common Heritage: The Leif Erikson Monument in Boston},
|
||||
urldate = {2025-03-24},
|
||||
volume = {30},
|
||||
year = {2018}
|
||||
}
|
||||
|
||||
% https://archive.org/details/lifevoyagesofver00gree
|
||||
@book{GreeneLife37,
|
||||
author = {Greene, George Washington},
|
||||
title = {The Life and Voyages of Verrazzano},
|
||||
year = {1837},
|
||||
publisher = {Folsom, Wells, and Thurston},
|
||||
address = {Cambridge, Massachusetts},
|
||||
}
|
||||
|
||||
% https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/50801/pg50801-images.html
|
||||
@book{WinsNar89,
|
||||
author = {Winsor, Justin},
|
||||
title = {Narrative and Critical History of America: Aboriginal America},
|
||||
volume = {1},
|
||||
year = {1889},
|
||||
publisher = {Houghton, Mifflin and Company},
|
||||
address = {Boston, Massachusetts},
|
||||
annote = {Primary source.}
|
||||
}
|
||||
|
||||
% https://archive.org/details/discoveryofancie01hors/page/n21/mode/2up
|
||||
@book{HorsDisc90,
|
||||
author = {Eben Norton Horsford},
|
||||
title = {The Discovery of the Ancient City of Norumbega},
|
||||
year = {1890},
|
||||
publisher = {Houghton, Mifflin and Company},
|
||||
address = {Boston, Massachusetts},
|
||||
annote = {Primary source.}
|
||||
}
|
||||
|
||||
@book{LongBall41,
|
||||
author = {Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth},
|
||||
title = {Ballads and Other Poems},
|
||||
year = {1841},
|
||||
publisher = {John Owen},
|
||||
address = {Cambridge, Massachusetts},
|
||||
annote = {Primary source; evidence of interest in New England Vikings previous to Horsford.},
|
||||
}
|
||||
|
||||
@article{LedgeHorz19,
|
||||
author = {Paul M. Ledger and Linus Girdland-Flink and Véronique Forbes},
|
||||
title = {New Horizons at L'Anse aux Meadows},
|
||||
journal = {Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences},
|
||||
volume = {116},
|
||||
number = {31},
|
||||
pages = {15341-15343},
|
||||
year = {2019},
|
||||
doi = {10.1073/pnas.1907986116},
|
||||
URL = {https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.1907986116},
|
||||
annote = {From peer-reviewed acedemic journal.}
|
||||
}
|
||||
|
||||
@article{WhiteLong42,
|
||||
ISSN = {00365637},
|
||||
URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/40915544},
|
||||
author = {George L. White},
|
||||
journal = {Scandinavian Studies},
|
||||
number = {2},
|
||||
pages = {70--82},
|
||||
publisher = {[Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study, University of Illinois Press]},
|
||||
title = {LONGFELLOW'S INTEREST IN SCANDINAVIA DURING THE YEARS 1835-1847},
|
||||
urldate = {2025-04-27},
|
||||
volume = {17},
|
||||
year = {1942}
|
||||
}
|
||||
|
Reference in New Issue
Block a user