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SCOAL TO THE V1KIXG.The Reproduction- or 1000 Year Old G ikstad Slop Visits Ahou,-ini fo-iata*aeae.ohbeaf-At 10 o'clock this morning the Norwegian Viking ship hailed in view on the Mississippi. A saluto of shrill whistles from the launches of the Iilinl ,Yacht Olub and harborboats greeted the strange craft as she swung into Alton harbor In tow of the tug Edithjft. A landing was effected at the Oherokoe wbarfboat. A orowd soon gathered to get a view of the visitor among them a committee headed by Mr. John S. Koper to bid them welcome to the Bluff Oity. The Viking Is truly a strange craft. It la ft reproduction of the Vikiog found at Gokatad, In 1880 at G oka tad the ahip was unearthed of which a copy was built and sont to the World's Fair. It was found near a small watering place place called Sandefjord situated on the western side of Oliris-tlanifjord, in a mound where accord ingto tradition a king was burie with all Lia treasures. The ship wai found to be in an excellent state o preservation and was Bfoly uneartbei by tbe aid of the Antiquarian society in Christiania. Here, at last, the actual character of vessels belongin to the Viking period waa brought light. ' .Cnptaln Anderson’s Lecture. Tonight Captain Andersen, of the Viking ship from Norway, will lecture at City Hall, Ho will give 100 BterA-optlcon pictures to illustrate his lecture, which will be descriptive of his conn try,and of the early settlements of the Norsemen along the Atlantic New England coast. H will also tell of the finding, a few years ago, of the old Viking ship on the ooast of Norway, after whose model the captain’s sbjip was planned. Ho will »1bo tell of his trip across tbe Atlantic In a small boat and his adventures on a lajge vessel which picked him up. 'j'he captain is a cultured, educated Norseman, thoroughly familiar with Ithe history of this couutry as ’well as hia his own, and is a daring navigator o world-renowned tame. He ia ed of a paper in Norway and was sen hiB country to represent It at World’s Fair and to show what Norsemen had done several hundred yearstjob tor (tst : a70Soutlow•oh,oftinei 68anyha*tfa-atlykedlge-ttoribythebefore Columbus discovered AmeThere should be Oity Hall tonight.lea.a large turnout at
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Alton Daily Telegraph
Alton, Illinois, US
Fri, Nov 17, 1893
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