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... English Vessels - Jack Tar in Iceland -Trees - MSS . - Icelandic Poetry - The Dream - Ballad CHAPTER XI . · • PAGE 155 171 UXAHVER . - ― A second Guide Icelandic Horse - calls- A theological Candidate Vathlaskarth - Wood in the Fnjoská ...
... English Vessels - Jack Tar in Iceland -Trees - MSS . - Icelandic Poetry - The Dream - Ballad CHAPTER XI . · • PAGE 155 171 UXAHVER . - ― A second Guide Icelandic Horse - calls- A theological Candidate Vathlaskarth - Wood in the Fnjoská ...
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... English authority on the subject when speak- ing of the Njala , but which apply equally to the Gretla , Aigla , Bandamanna Saga , Vatnsdæla Saga , & c . : - " We may be sure that as soon as each event recorded in the Saga occurred it ...
... English authority on the subject when speak- ing of the Njala , but which apply equally to the Gretla , Aigla , Bandamanna Saga , Vatnsdæla Saga , & c . : - " We may be sure that as soon as each event recorded in the Saga occurred it ...
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... antiquated and provincial words my versions of the Sagas , where such words closely resembled the Icelandic . The principal of these * Burnt Njal , vol . i . 6 . --- are : Chapman , a good English word , xvi PREFACE . The Great Geysir.
... antiquated and provincial words my versions of the Sagas , where such words closely resembled the Icelandic . The principal of these * Burnt Njal , vol . i . 6 . --- are : Chapman , a good English word , xvi PREFACE . The Great Geysir.
Page xvii
... English word , signifying merchant ; gill , a narrow glen ; fell , a mountain ; byre , a farm ; bonder , a farmer ; to busk , with its past participle , boune , to make ready ; hight , called . With regard to my fellow - travellers , I ...
... English word , signifying merchant ; gill , a narrow glen ; fell , a mountain ; byre , a farm ; bonder , a farmer ; to busk , with its past participle , boune , to make ready ; hight , called . With regard to my fellow - travellers , I ...
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... English miles , and greatest breadth 190. It is deeply indented with fjords on all sides except the south . It owes its upheaval entirely to volcanic agency , and is composed exclusively of igneous rocks . The interior of the island ...
... English miles , and greatest breadth 190. It is deeply indented with fjords on all sides except the south . It owes its upheaval entirely to volcanic agency , and is composed exclusively of igneous rocks . The interior of the island ...
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