1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Rafn, Karl Christian

RAFN, KARL CHRISTIAN (1795–1864), Danish archaeologist, was born in Brahesborg, Fünen, on the 16th of January 1795, and died at Copenhagen on the 20th of October 1864. He is chiefly known in connexion with the controversy as to the question of the discovery of America by the Norsemen, his views being contained in his chief work, Antiquitates Americanae (Copenhagen, 1837). See Lief Ericsson.