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... cold milk . Tuesday , midday : -Stock - fish and butter ; pease and meat . Evening : -Stock- fish and butter ; cold cods - sound . Wednesday , midday : -Stock - fish and butter ; meat soup . Evening : -Stock- fish and butter ; warm fish ...
... cold milk . Tuesday , midday : -Stock - fish and butter ; pease and meat . Evening : -Stock- fish and butter ; cold cods - sound . Wednesday , midday : -Stock - fish and butter ; meat soup . Evening : -Stock- fish and butter ; warm fish ...
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... cold , scanty diet , and the ground for a couch ! At eight o'clock on the evening of June 19th , we left Reykjavík for the interior and north . The sun had come out right gloriously from his pavilion of clouds , and furled them up in ...
... cold , scanty diet , and the ground for a couch ! At eight o'clock on the evening of June 19th , we left Reykjavík for the interior and north . The sun had come out right gloriously from his pavilion of clouds , and furled them up in ...
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... cold was sharp , the ground , where we lay , full of stones , and I was roused at intervals by the horn of the snipe and the melancholy strain of the swan , as these birds flew past our tent , after the sun had broken over the northern ...
... cold was sharp , the ground , where we lay , full of stones , and I was roused at intervals by the horn of the snipe and the melancholy strain of the swan , as these birds flew past our tent , after the sun had broken over the northern ...
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... cold ocean shivers The bright chain I did weave . The bright chain of my weaving ! Oh , vengeance ! would ' twere mine ! But how can these old sinews Resist the ruthless brine ? Of much , too much , despoiled , An old man , sitting lone ...
... cold ocean shivers The bright chain I did weave . The bright chain of my weaving ! Oh , vengeance ! would ' twere mine ! But how can these old sinews Resist the ruthless brine ? Of much , too much , despoiled , An old man , sitting lone ...
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... cold ; The son's warm pulses quivered Through these thews waxing old . Now , through the long night watches I restlessly am tossed : I cannot sleep for thinking Of all that I have lost . Odin ! why hast thou riven The green bough from ...
... cold ; The son's warm pulses quivered Through these thews waxing old . Now , through the long night watches I restlessly am tossed : I cannot sleep for thinking Of all that I have lost . Odin ! why hast thou riven The green bough from ...
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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