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Page xxxvi
... poor cottages , around two or three merchants ' stores , are at Isafjord and Eskifjord . Elsewhere the people are widely separated , an arrangement necessitated by the scantiness of pasture for their cattle . The places marked on the ...
... poor cottages , around two or three merchants ' stores , are at Isafjord and Eskifjord . Elsewhere the people are widely separated , an arrangement necessitated by the scantiness of pasture for their cattle . The places marked on the ...
Page xxxvii
... poor sufferers ; but after the Reformation , charity declined , and the hospitals fell into disuse . Consumption is unknown . Reyk- javík would be a good place for patients in the first stage , as the air is remarkably pure , and ...
... poor sufferers ; but after the Reformation , charity declined , and the hospitals fell into disuse . Consumption is unknown . Reyk- javík would be a good place for patients in the first stage , as the air is remarkably pure , and ...
Page 12
... poor woman . " You have brought hither the greatest ruffians in Norway . I would have given anything that they had This is the way in which you return the good Thorfin has done you , in rescuing you from shipwreck , in taking you into ...
... poor woman . " You have brought hither the greatest ruffians in Norway . I would have given anything that they had This is the way in which you return the good Thorfin has done you , in rescuing you from shipwreck , in taking you into ...
Page 16
... poor woman , emerging from her hiding - place . " But , Grettir , I have no faith in you ! " " Faith or no faith , " exclaimed Grettir ; " I must have weapons at once . Where are the churls ? Here , Kolbein ! Svein ! Gamli ! Hrolf ...
... poor woman , emerging from her hiding - place . " But , Grettir , I have no faith in you ! " " Faith or no faith , " exclaimed Grettir ; " I must have weapons at once . Where are the churls ? Here , Kolbein ! Svein ! Gamli ! Hrolf ...
Page 18
... poor wretches like rats from corner to corner , till he had cut them both down . Then he pulled the corpses to the door and cast them outside . In the meanwhile the sky had become overcast with a thick snow fog which rolled up from the ...
... poor wretches like rats from corner to corner , till he had cut them both down . Then he pulled the corpses to the door and cast them outside . In the meanwhile the sky had become overcast with a thick snow fog which rolled up from the ...
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