Note 631 — Chapter II

Cf. list of their several issues in Scudder’s Catal. of Scient. Serials, nos. 640, 654, and the Rafn bibliography in Sabin, xvi. nos. 67,466-67,486. In addition to its Danish publications, the chief of which interesting to the American archæologist being the Antiquarisk Tidsskrift (1845-1864), sometimes known as the Revue Archéologique et Bulletin, the society, under its more familiar name of Société Royale des Antiquaires du Nord, has issued its Mémoires, the first series running from 1836 to 1860, in 4 vols., and the second beginning in 1866. These contain numerous papers involving the discussion of the Northmen voyages, including a condensed narrative by Rafn, “Mémoire sur la découverte de l’Amérique au 10e siècle,” which was enlarged and frequently issued separately in French and other languages (1838-1843), and is sometimes found in English as a Supplement to the Antiquitates Americanæ, and was issued in New York (1838) as America discovered in the tenth century. In this form (Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., viii. 187) it was widely used here and in Europe to call attention to Rafn’s folio, Antiquitates Americanæ.