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... Icelandic Magical Characters . 299 Tunguhver Runic Tombstone at Reykholt · 840 . 343 The Skrimsl • . 846 Bird's - eye View of the Geysir District . 358 Gyr - Falcon . 898 PREFACE . My object in visiting Iceland was twofold .
... Icelandic Magical Characters . 299 Tunguhver Runic Tombstone at Reykholt · 840 . 343 The Skrimsl • . 846 Bird's - eye View of the Geysir District . 358 Gyr - Falcon . 898 PREFACE . My object in visiting Iceland was twofold .
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... visiting Iceland was twofold . I pur- posed examining scenes famous in Saga , and filling a portfolio with water - colour sketches . The reader must bear this in mind , otherwise he may be disappointed at finding in these pages little ...
... visiting Iceland was twofold . I pur- posed examining scenes famous in Saga , and filling a portfolio with water - colour sketches . The reader must bear this in mind , otherwise he may be disappointed at finding in these pages little ...
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... visited it , found a large stone at one spot crossing the lip of the gulf . He and a companion dislodged it , and sent it down into the abyss , but , though they listened attentively , they could not hear it reach the bottom . The great ...
... visited it , found a large stone at one spot crossing the lip of the gulf . He and a companion dislodged it , and sent it down into the abyss , but , though they listened attentively , they could not hear it reach the bottom . The great ...
Page xxxix
... visited the remote island of Thule , that it lay far away in the north , and that between it and Britain was a cluster of islets ( evidently the Faroes ) , some only separated by narrow straits ; that these islets were thronged with ...
... visited the remote island of Thule , that it lay far away in the north , and that between it and Britain was a cluster of islets ( evidently the Faroes ) , some only separated by narrow straits ; that these islets were thronged with ...
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... have only visited the scenes in the neighbourhood of Reykjavík , such as the Geysir and Hekla , and perhaps extended their range to Snæfell's Jökull . ICELAND : ITS SCENES AND SAGAS . CHAPTER I. COASTING xlviii INTRODUCTION .
... have only visited the scenes in the neighbourhood of Reykjavík , such as the Geysir and Hekla , and perhaps extended their range to Snæfell's Jökull . ICELAND : ITS SCENES AND SAGAS . CHAPTER I. COASTING xlviii INTRODUCTION .
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