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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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... Icelandic tongue . I have worked at it for three or four years , and have arrived at the conclusion that both language and literature require the devotion of a lifetime for their proper mastery . The language is full of obscure idioms ...
... Icelandic tongue . I have worked at it for three or four years , and have arrived at the conclusion that both language and literature require the devotion of a lifetime for their proper mastery . The language is full of obscure idioms ...
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... Icelandic birds , and especially to Mr. Alfred Newton for his invaluable paper on the ornithology of the island , inserted in my Appendix ; also to Mr. W. Boyd and Mr. W. Ardley for their harmonies to the Icelandic melodies I brought ...
... Icelandic birds , and especially to Mr. Alfred Newton for his invaluable paper on the ornithology of the island , inserted in my Appendix ; also to Mr. W. Boyd and Mr. W. Ardley for their harmonies to the Icelandic melodies I brought ...
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... Iceland are both numerous and large . The Jökulsá is the longest - it rises in the Vatna jökull , receives a ... Icelandic rivers , the traveller trusts either to his horse or to a ferry . The ponies swim well ; but if the current be too ...
... Iceland are both numerous and large . The Jökulsá is the longest - it rises in the Vatna jökull , receives a ... Icelandic rivers , the traveller trusts either to his horse or to a ferry . The ponies swim well ; but if the current be too ...
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... Iceland are very extensive ; the noble Faxafjord , sixty - five miles across , opens between capes Reykjanes and the silver sugarloaf of Snæfell . Breithi - fjord , studded with innu- merable islets , the home of myriads of eider and ...
... Iceland are very extensive ; the noble Faxafjord , sixty - five miles across , opens between capes Reykjanes and the silver sugarloaf of Snæfell . Breithi - fjord , studded with innu- merable islets , the home of myriads of eider and ...
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