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