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... beautiful Frith - Mr . Briggs's Story -Thorodds - stathr - Row across the Fjord - Merchant Vessels- Hospitality - Mr . Briggs recovers his Heart - Trouble with the Pack- saddle - Holtavörthu Heithi - Sclavonian Grebe - Arctic Foxes ...
... beautiful Frith - Mr . Briggs's Story -Thorodds - stathr - Row across the Fjord - Merchant Vessels- Hospitality - Mr . Briggs recovers his Heart - Trouble with the Pack- saddle - Holtavörthu Heithi - Sclavonian Grebe - Arctic Foxes ...
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... beautiful . The leaves belong to the poplar , willow , and birch . The alternation of basalt and surturbrand deserves peculiar attention from geologists , as the existence of leaves , and absence of marine shells in the deposit , seems ...
... beautiful . The leaves belong to the poplar , willow , and birch . The alternation of basalt and surturbrand deserves peculiar attention from geologists , as the existence of leaves , and absence of marine shells in the deposit , seems ...
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... beautiful . The girls have graceful figures , which appear to advantage , as they hold themselves very upright , both when walking and sitting . Their features are not regular , but soft and pleasing . In character , the people are ...
... beautiful . The girls have graceful figures , which appear to advantage , as they hold themselves very upright , both when walking and sitting . Their features are not regular , but soft and pleasing . In character , the people are ...
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... beautiful ; full in front , Hjörleif's Head , a bluff of dark rock , seven hundred feet high , stood up proudly from a low , repulsive plain of volcanic dust . We could dis- tinguish the smoke from a little farm on the top , but the ...
... beautiful ; full in front , Hjörleif's Head , a bluff of dark rock , seven hundred feet high , stood up proudly from a low , repulsive plain of volcanic dust . We could dis- tinguish the smoke from a little farm on the top , but the ...
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... beautiful cutlass . No lack of weapons , if you have only the pluck to use them ! " Grettir seized the casque and spear , girded on the sword , and dashed into the yard , begging the woman to send the churls after him . She called the ...
... beautiful cutlass . No lack of weapons , if you have only the pluck to use them ! " Grettir seized the casque and spear , girded on the sword , and dashed into the yard , begging the woman to send the churls after him . She called the ...
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Akureyri Alleluiah Althing answered asked basalt beautiful bird bishop Bjarg blue boat boiling bonder Briggs brother brought called church clouds cold colour crag Danish door Drangey Edmund Evans Egill eruption exclaimed eyes farm farmer father feet fish fjord flung Gellir Geysir Glámr grass Greenland Grettir grey Grímr hands head heap heithi Hekla hill Hólar horses Hrolleifr Icel Iceland Illugi Ingimund island Jökull Jón Katla Kolr Krafla lake land lava looked merchant miles morning mountain Myvatn natives never night Oddr Ofeigr Periphrasis pony priest quoth reached Reykjanes Reykjavík ride river rock rode rolled round saddle Saga sand Savigniac side snow spot spring stone stood story stream Strokr summer Svínavatn swans Thorbjorn Thorfin Thorgils Thorhall Thorir Thorstein trachyte Trölladyngja tún turf vale Vatnsdalr vessel visited whilst whimbrel wild wind winter