fieldmuseumphotoarchives:The museum is buzzing about the arrival of a replica Viking ship. It is so

fieldmuseumphotoarchives:The museum is buzzing about the arrival of a replica Viking ship. It is so large we are craning it in through the front door. Vikings opens Feb 27th. © The Field Museum, GN90799d_WFWC_18w.The Viking ship. Color plate by Charles S. Graham from The World’s Fair in Water Colors. The celebration of discoveries of Christopher Columbus did not pass without a feeling, in Norway, that the world had not sufficiently honored a previous visitor to America. But poems about Viking had been generally discredited, and when there was dug from a kitchen-midden in Norway a real Viking vessel 1,000 years old, reproducing pictures that had alone remained to tell their tale, people of Norway, with almost one accord, set out by popular subscription to make a remarkable test of truth of their traditions. With a fund gathered from every village in Norway, a replica of ancient Viking vessel was made, and the Norwegian Commissioners took sail as the crew. Under Captain Magnus Andersen, the proud Norsemen put across the Atlantic in his small craft, and came to anchor by way of New York and the lakes at Jackson Park about five o’clock of Wednesday, July 12, 1893. The late Mayor Harrison went aboard at Racine, up the lake, and took command for the rest of the voyage, assuring all hands in good Norwegian, that he himself was descended from the sea-kings, which the good Norsemen might well believe. The scene on the lake was that day the most animated of the whole season, and it was generally held to be well-proved that Columbus, who had gone to Iceland in his earlier days, might easily have there learned of the discoveries of Lief Ericsson at Vinland, Markland, and Helleland, on the coast of Massachusetts. Size of original document approximately 8.8 x 11 inches.6/1/1893 © The Field Museum, Photo by Karen Bean GN92079_030dViking ship being craned in to the south entrance of the museum.  -- source link

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