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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Historical Lecturers and Essays by Charles Kingsley: reason to be sad; and the minsters and cloisters which sprang up
over the whole of Northern Europe, and even beyond it, along the
dreary western shores of Greenland itself, are the symbols of a
splendid repentance for their own sins and for the sins of their
forefathers.
Gudruna herself, of whom I spoke just now, one of those old Norse
heroines who helped to discover America, though a historic
personage, is a symbolic one likewise, and the pattern of a whole
class. She too, after many journeys to Iceland, Greenland, and
Winland, goes on a pilgrimage to Rome, to get, I presume, absolution
from the Pope himself for all the sins of her strange, rich, stormy,
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