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Page xxviii
... turning them to advantage , by draining off the icy water which nips and destroys the tender grass , ready enough to spring . Besides these swamps , there are stone bogs on all high land , caused by the breaking up of the tufa rocks ...
... turning them to advantage , by draining off the icy water which nips and destroys the tender grass , ready enough to spring . Besides these swamps , there are stone bogs on all high land , caused by the breaking up of the tufa rocks ...
Page xxxii
... turned of a deep black and blue colour , which gradually disappeared as he recovered . There can be little doubt that this " cloud " must have been some material flung from Hekla , which erupted that very year . A fireball of a terrific ...
... turned of a deep black and blue colour , which gradually disappeared as he recovered . There can be little doubt that this " cloud " must have been some material flung from Hekla , which erupted that very year . A fireball of a terrific ...
Page xxxiii
... turned to any account . The former is shot for its quills ; the latter is pre- served , by law , for its down . A severe penalty is inflicted on all who kill this bird ; and it becomes so tame in the breeding season , as to build and ...
... turned to any account . The former is shot for its quills ; the latter is pre- served , by law , for its down . A severe penalty is inflicted on all who kill this bird ; and it becomes so tame in the breeding season , as to build and ...
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... turned round for another snooze . The morning was 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 ...
... turned round for another snooze . The morning was 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 ...
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... turned to his brother Ögmund and said : " This is just what I expected , is it not ? Now we can serve Thorfin out in thorough earnest , for having made us outlaws . What a chatterbox this fellow is ! There's no need of pumping to get ...
... turned to his brother Ögmund and said : " This is just what I expected , is it not ? Now we can serve Thorfin out in thorough earnest , for having made us outlaws . What a chatterbox this fellow is ! There's no need of pumping to get ...
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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