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... fishing boats , or slung over the pre- cipices , collecting eggs , his life depending on the hair rope his own hands have woven , and these Icelandic hair ropes are frail enough , Heaven knows ! Offer him a stout English cable and he ...
... fishing boats , or slung over the pre- cipices , collecting eggs , his life depending on the hair rope his own hands have woven , and these Icelandic hair ropes are frail enough , Heaven knows ! Offer him a stout English cable and he ...
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... fishing and shooting . " Make whales ! Fiddlesticks ' ends ! " " Yes , make them , " retorted the Yankee , bridling up . " There was an intimate friend of mine made the great Leviathan or sea - sarpint ; and a pee - owerful sight better ...
... fishing and shooting . " Make whales ! Fiddlesticks ' ends ! " " Yes , make them , " retorted the Yankee , bridling up . " There was an intimate friend of mine made the great Leviathan or sea - sarpint ; and a pee - owerful sight better ...
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... fish - like smell ! " — The School - The Residence - The Cathedral - Thorwaldsen - Icelandic Silver- work — The Merchant Stores - Mr . Briggs and the Porters - Dinner — I visit the Rector - A would - be Suicide - The Catholic Mission ...
... fish - like smell ! " — The School - The Residence - The Cathedral - Thorwaldsen - Icelandic Silver- work — The Merchant Stores - Mr . Briggs and the Porters - Dinner — I visit the Rector - A would - be Suicide - The Catholic Mission ...
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... . Decayed fish , offal , filth of every description , is tossed anywhere for the rain to wash away , or for the passer - by to trample into the ground . The fuel made use of is dry sea - weed DESCRIPTION OF REYKJAVÍK . 27.
... . Decayed fish , offal , filth of every description , is tossed anywhere for the rain to wash away , or for the passer - by to trample into the ground . The fuel made use of is dry sea - weed DESCRIPTION OF REYKJAVÍK . 27.
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... fish - bones , and any refuse which can be coaxed to smoulder or puffed into a blaze ; so that the smoke , as may well be imagined , is anything but grateful to the olfactory nerves . An Icelander seems to have no sense of smell ...
... fish - bones , and any refuse which can be coaxed to smoulder or puffed into a blaze ; so that the smoke , as may well be imagined , is anything but grateful to the olfactory nerves . An Icelander seems to have no sense of smell ...
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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