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The Maine penny, also referred to as the Goddard coin, is a Norwegian silver coin dating to the reign of Olaf Kyrre King of Norway (1067–1093 AD). It was claimed to be discovered in Maine in 1957, and it has been suggested as evidence of Pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact .
A coin similar to the Maine penny. Unusual finds at the site include worked copper, including some of European origin that were found in a Late Ceramic period grave of two children, alongside clay artifacts. [3] The most unusual find, however, is the Maine penny, a silver coin of Norse origin, dating to the reign of Olaf Kyrre (1067–1093 AD ...
It was published by Minotaur Books [2] as a sequel to Penny's 2021 book The Madness of Crowds. [3] The novel was published in late 2022 just as Amazon Prime Video started streaming the television show Three Pines, adaptations of Penny's earlier books in the series. [4]
This entry should be updated in the light of the discussion of the Maine Penny in Gordon Campbell's Norse America: the Story of a Founding Myth (Oxford University Press, 2021), pp. 167-72. Unlike far too much of what has been written about the Northmen in North America this is a sober, non-partisan and scholarly book.
The coins were discovered in 1840 by Captain Stephen Grindle and his son Samuel who unearthed the coins on their farm located near the Bagaduce River.. Catine Hoard was found, “on the banks or shore of the Bagaduce river, about six miles from the site of Castin's fort…about six miles above, is a point called Johnson's Narrows', or 'Second Narrows', where the water is of great depth, and at ...
New Biographical Series; One Half Penny Book Series; Pamphlet series; The Pen and Pencil Series; Penny Tales for the People; Picture Books for Little Children; Present Day Primers [32] Present Day Tracts; R.T.S. Books for the People, also known as: R.T.S. 1d. Penny Books for the People; The R.T.S. Library [28] Sandringham Series of Penny ...
Jerusalem's Lot, Maine (often shortened to 'Salem's Lot or just the Lot) is a fictional town and a part of writer Stephen King's fictional Maine topography. 'Salem's Lot has served as the setting for a number of his novels, novellas, and short stories.
Carolyn Chute (born Carolyn Penny; June 14, 1947) is an American writer and populist political activist who is strongly identified with the culture of poor, rural western Maine. Rod Dreher , writing in The American Conservative , has referred to Chute as "a Maine novelist and gun enthusiast who, along with her husband, lives an aggressively ...