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... boats , bringing with them their articles for barter , and purchasing at the merchant's store , which is supplied with shop counter on the quarter - deck or in the hold . Iceland was accidentally discovered by Naddothr , a Norwe- gian ...
... boats , bringing with them their articles for barter , and purchasing at the merchant's store , which is supplied with shop counter on the quarter - deck or in the hold . Iceland was accidentally discovered by Naddothr , a Norwe- gian ...
Page xli
... boat . At Bergen , according to Torfæus , who follows Pontanus , the plague broke out in its most frightful form , with vomiting of blood ; and throughout the whole country , spared not more than a third of the inhabitants . The sailors ...
... boat . At Bergen , according to Torfæus , who follows Pontanus , the plague broke out in its most frightful form , with vomiting of blood ; and throughout the whole country , spared not more than a third of the inhabitants . The sailors ...
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... boats with every- thing that they could carry off , and fled to the Westmann Islands , which are called after them . So landlord stalking is no new invention among the Irish ! A glorious panorama was gradually unfolding before us as the ...
... boats with every- thing that they could carry off , and fled to the Westmann Islands , which are called after them . So landlord stalking is no new invention among the Irish ! A glorious panorama was gradually unfolding before us as the ...
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... boat can venture across the straits . When the wind is at all violent , the stream is taken and tossed in spray high above the cliffs over which it shoots . The islands form a syssel or county by themselves , and have a magistrate ...
... boat can venture across the straits . When the wind is at all violent , the stream is taken and tossed in spray high above the cliffs over which it shoots . The islands form a syssel or county by themselves , and have a magistrate ...
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... boats , are hoisted on to it by ropes . Another , Hellarey , has caves in it which serve as folds during boisterous weather , when the winds are violent enough to sweep the unprotected live - stock over the cliffs . Bjarney , which ...
... boats , are hoisted on to it by ropes . Another , Hellarey , has caves in it which serve as folds during boisterous weather , when the winds are violent enough to sweep the unprotected live - stock over the cliffs . Bjarney , which ...
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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