In Search of First Contact: The Vikings of Vinland, the Peoples of the Dawnland, and the Anglo-American Anxiety of Discovery by Kolodny Annette

Author:Kolodny, Annette [Kolodny, Annette]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2012-05-28T16:00:00+00:00

The Viking Ship Comes In

On 2 May 1893, in a modest notice on page 11, the New York Times announced that two days before, “The Viking ship, to be exhibited at the Chicago World's Fair…sailed…for New York” (“The Viking Ship Sails”). The ship was a replica of a medieval vessel excavated in Norway in 1880. On 14 June, a headline on page 1 of the New York Times blared “The Viking Ship Is Here”; a subhead read “Anchored Safe and Sound in New-London Harbor.” After “a voyage of forty-four days from Bergen, Norway,” the article reported, the ship had anchored at New London, Connecticut, “the first American port she has entered. All are well on board and the ship is in excellent condition.” (See figure 7.) Four days later, on 18 June, the first page of the New York Times again carried the headline “The Viking Ship Is Here,” but this time the subhead read “New-York's Hearty Welcome to the Bold Voyager.” The lengthy article that followed described in some detail the “royal reception” accorded the ship as it made its way through New York Harbor to “her anchorage in the North River” (i.e., the Hudson). The article then noted, “Her decks swarmed with bearded, sunbrowned men, with fierce moustaches and fair hair” (1). Not only had a replica Viking ship arrived, this language suggested, but, with her, also came her manly replica Viking crew.

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