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Page vii
... Story - My first Saga : " The Red Rovers " -Cape Reykjanes - The Mealsack— The Great Auk • CHAPTER II . REYKJAVÍK . PAGE xii xix . 1 ―― Arrival - Description of Reykjavík- " A very Antient fish - like Smell ! " The School - The ...
... Story - My first Saga : " The Red Rovers " -Cape Reykjanes - The Mealsack— The Great Auk • CHAPTER II . REYKJAVÍK . PAGE xii xix . 1 ―― Arrival - Description of Reykjavík- " A very Antient fish - like Smell ! " The School - The ...
Page viii
... An ancient Fort Colonization of Vatnsdalr - Hóf- The Story of Hrolleifr : a Saga - MSS . - Old Nick - Icelandic Endearments - Music - Haukagil - Undirfell • 133 CHAPTER IX . FROM HNAUSIR TO EYJA FJORD . A viii CONTENTS . Akureyri.
... An ancient Fort Colonization of Vatnsdalr - Hóf- The Story of Hrolleifr : a Saga - MSS . - Old Nick - Icelandic Endearments - Music - Haukagil - Undirfell • 133 CHAPTER IX . FROM HNAUSIR TO EYJA FJORD . A viii CONTENTS . Akureyri.
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... Story of the Banded - men : A Saga CHAPTER XVIII . THE HRUTAFJORD . . 246 . 278 . 297 Leave Melr - Icelandic Etiquette - A beautiful Frith - Mr . Briggs's Story -Thorodds - stathr - Row across the Fjord - Merchant Vessels- Hospitality ...
... Story of the Banded - men : A Saga CHAPTER XVIII . THE HRUTAFJORD . . 246 . 278 . 297 Leave Melr - Icelandic Etiquette - A beautiful Frith - Mr . Briggs's Story -Thorodds - stathr - Row across the Fjord - Merchant Vessels- Hospitality ...
Page xiv
... story was unfolded and took shape , and centred round Njal , that it was handed down from father to son as truthfully and faithfully as could ever be the case with any public ' or notorious matter in local history . But it is not on ...
... story was unfolded and took shape , and centred round Njal , that it was handed down from father to son as truthfully and faithfully as could ever be the case with any public ' or notorious matter in local history . But it is not on ...
Page xv
... story in Thucydides or Tacitus , or even in Clarendon or Hume , is believed on evidence not one - tenth part so trustworthy as that which supports the narratives of these Icelandic story - tellers of the eleventh century . That with ...
... story in Thucydides or Tacitus , or even in Clarendon or Hume , is believed on evidence not one - tenth part so trustworthy as that which supports the narratives of these Icelandic story - tellers of the eleventh century . That with ...
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