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KARL CHRISTIAN RAFN (1795-1864)

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KARL

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CHRISTIAN
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RAFN (1795-1864)  , Danish archaeologist, was
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born in Brahesborg, Ffinen, on the 16th of
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January 1795, and died at
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Copenhagen on the loth of
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October 1864 . He is chiefly known in connexion with the controversy as to the question of the
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discovery of
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America by the Norsemen, his views being contained in his
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chief
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work, Antiquitates Americanae (Copenhagen, 1837) . See LEIF ERICSSON .

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