The Age of Exploration Literature Survey of American Literature Mohamad Noor Rizal 180410090090
May 25, 2015
The Age of Exploration Literature
Survey of American Literature
Mohamad Noor Rizal180410090090
Main Works
• Vindland Sagas• The Columbus Letters (Epistola de Insulis
Nuper Inventis)• A Briefe and True Report of the New-Found
Land of Virginia • Pocahontas
The Voyages of the Vikings
Vindland Sagas
• The Vinland Sagas are two Icelandic documents, The Saga of the Greenlanders (Grænlendinga Saga) and The Saga of Eric the Red, (Eiríks Saga Rauða)
• The Vinland Sagas represent the most complete information we have about the Norse exploration of the Americas.
The Columbus Letter of 1493
• one addressed to Luis de Santangel, keeper of accounts of Aragon, dated February 15, 1493
• another almost identical letter sent to Gabriel Sanchez, treasurer of Aragon, dated March 14, 1493.
• an individual letter addressed specifically to Ferdinand and Isabella, of which no copy has survived today.
Scanned Letters
The Letter’s Diaspora
A Briefe and True Report of the New-Found Land of Virginia
• Written by Thomas Harriot in 1588
• Tells about the exploration of Roanoke
Pocahontas
• Written by Captain John Smith
• Less accurate than the Harriot’s work
Works Cited• Preservation Virginia. (n.d.). Pocahontas. Retrieved February 27,
2011, from Preservation Virginia: http://www.preservationvirginia.org/rediscovery/page.php?page_id=26
• VanSpanckeren, K. An Outline of American Literature. United States Information Agency.
• Wikipedia. (2011, February 15). Columbus's Letter on the First Voyage. Retrieved February 27, 2011, from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbus's_Letter_on_the_First_Voyage
• Wikipedia. (2010, October 20). Vinland Sagas. Retrieved February 27, 2011, from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinland_Sagas