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... Mountain - A Ride over a Desert - Eylifr - A wretched Farm - Dettifoss - A magnificent Fall -Volcanic Cones - Return to Reykjahlith . 205 - CHAPTER XIII . A SNOW PASS . I hold a Levee - My Plans upset - The Church of Thverá - Taking ...
... Mountain - A Ride over a Desert - Eylifr - A wretched Farm - Dettifoss - A magnificent Fall -Volcanic Cones - Return to Reykjahlith . 205 - CHAPTER XIII . A SNOW PASS . I hold a Levee - My Plans upset - The Church of Thverá - Taking ...
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... 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 have so altered their names and the incidents related of them , as to ...
... 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 have so altered their names and the incidents related of them , as to ...
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... mountains ; but this view is erroneous . Instead of a vale , we have the great jökulls of the centre formed of tufa , and only the fells and smaller ice - mountains on the north coast composed of basalt . The mountain system is in the ...
... mountains ; but this view is erroneous . Instead of a vale , we have the great jökulls of the centre formed of tufa , and only the fells and smaller ice - mountains on the north coast composed of basalt . The mountain system is in the ...
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... mountains of Iceland are divided into two classes , the fells and the jökulls . The former are , for the most part ... mountain exerted upon the ice , it moves slowly over the rocky ledges , and breaks off in crags of green ice , which ...
... mountains of Iceland are divided into two classes , the fells and the jökulls . The former are , for the most part ... mountain exerted upon the ice , it moves slowly over the rocky ledges , and breaks off in crags of green ice , which ...
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... mountain sides , but from the grass - land under foot . The earth gapes and pours forth a flood of fire or casts up scorise , where meadows had previously existed . Such eruptions took place near Myvatn , in 1725 , and at Thing- vellir ...
... mountain sides , but from the grass - land under foot . The earth gapes and pours forth a flood of fire or casts up scorise , where meadows had previously existed . Such eruptions took place near Myvatn , in 1725 , and at Thing- vellir ...
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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