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... fish - like Smell ! " The School - The Residence The Cathedral Thorwaldsen- Icelandic Silverwork - The Merchant Stores - Mr . Briggs and the Porters - Dinner - I visit the Rector - A would - be Suicide - The Catholic Mission - The ...
... fish - like Smell ! " The School - The Residence The Cathedral Thorwaldsen- Icelandic Silverwork - The Merchant Stores - Mr . Briggs and the Porters - Dinner - I visit the Rector - A would - be Suicide - The Catholic Mission - The ...
Page xxxiii
... fish which frequent the numerous lakes , rivers , and fjords are little known . Faber mentions forty - nine varieties , of which seven are fresh - water fish . The list is manifestly incomplete . The most valuable property of an ...
... fish which frequent the numerous lakes , rivers , and fjords are little known . Faber mentions forty - nine varieties , of which seven are fresh - water fish . The list is manifestly incomplete . The most valuable property of an ...
Page xxxiv
... fish are split and wind - dried , then stacked in an outhouse for con- sumption . No grain is cultivated , but a species of wild corn , growing on the sand - flats by the sea , is much prized . It is reaped with a sickle , and , after ...
... fish are split and wind - dried , then stacked in an outhouse for con- sumption . No grain is cultivated , but a species of wild corn , growing on the sand - flats by the sea , is much prized . It is reaped with a sickle , and , after ...
Page xli
... fish . In 1418 , one of the first acts of Henry V. was to send letters to Iceland , with five ships , relative to the opening of a market for English merchandise . In 1402 , the black death was brought into the country by Black a ...
... fish . In 1418 , one of the first acts of Henry V. was to send letters to Iceland , with five ships , relative to the opening of a market for English merchandise . In 1402 , the black death was brought into the country by Black a ...
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... fish he has seen from aloft ; a shark asleep on the surface , rolling with the swell , his dorsal fin standing above the water like a ploughshare ; and , out at sea , a whale blowing off a fountain of spray . Dyrhólar is an arch drilled ...
... fish he has seen from aloft ; a shark asleep on the surface , rolling with the swell , his dorsal fin standing above the water like a ploughshare ; and , out at sea , a whale blowing off a fountain of spray . Dyrhólar is an arch drilled ...
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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