In the _Bibliotheque Imperiale_, at Paris, there are no less than eleven MSS.

of the original Latin legend, the dates of which vary from the eleventh to the fourteenth century.

In the old French and Romance dialects there are abundant copies in most public libraries in France; while versions in Irish, Dutch, German, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese, abound in all parts of the Continent.

Traces of ante-Columbian voyages to America are continually cropping up.

But the appearance, in 1837, of the _Antiquitates Americanae sive ita Scriptores Septentrionales rerum ante-Columbiarum_, in America, edited by Professor Rafu, at Copenhagen, has given final and conclusive evidence on this interesting subject.