Show MAY HAVE BEEN ERICSSON'S Interesting Speculation Arising From Discovery of Ancient Galleys Buried in Norway A traveler In Norway has hns been lookIng lookIng looking look- look Ing at the two ancient ships In one of which though probably In neither Lief Ericsson may have reached the western world five centuries before Columbus Nothing proves that either of them was Ericsson's galley nothing nothIng nothing noth noth- ing proves that It wasn't The ancient pagan custom that burled buried the craft of the sen sea hero hero preserved the galleys away In the soil solI of Norway thanks to a covering of or potters potter's clay and a twentieth century farmer recovered the second one The savants looked it over and dated it from the ninth century en tu ry contemporary with the ad nd- venturous Ericsson possibly his own ship About seventy feet teet long Ions the vessel is shaped not unlike a n double double- pointed rowboat fiat flat and low with forked uprights for 15 pairs of oars and the conventional dragon carved on bow and stern Under the floor are the compartments where the voyagers doubtless stored their provisions One can Imagine the watcher at the prow the helmsman tugging at the tiller WIer the galley master high in the poop beatIng beatIng beating beat- beat Ing with his great hammer the rhythm for the thirty oarsmen It is far more difficult to Imagine how they slept and ate In rough weather |