CONTENTS.

[APPENDIX.]
		PAGE
PREFACE		[v]
LEITH TO THORSHAVN		[1]
WESTMANNA ISLANDS—REYKJAVIK		[35]
RIDE TO THE GEYSERS		[69]
REYKJAVIK		[143]
JÖKUL-RANGES AND VOLCANOES ON THE SOUTH COAST		[160]
	Kötlugjá’s Eruptions	[163]
	Icelandic Statistics	[180]
	Eruption of Skaptár Jökul	[187]
	Volcanic History of Iceland	[193]
THE EAST COAST. BREIDAMERKR—SEYDISFIORD		[197]
	Seydisfiord, by Faröe, to Leith	[208]


I. [Icelandic Stories and Fairy Tales]
[Stories of Sæmundur Frodi called the learned.]
	I. The dark School	[219]
	II. Sæmund gets the living of Oddi	[221]
	III. The Goblin and the Cowherd	[222]
	IV. Old Nick made himself as little as he was able	[224]
	V. The Fly	[224]
	VI. The Goblin’s Whistle	[225]
[Fairy Tales]
	Biarni Sveinsson and his sister Salvör	[226]
	Una the Fairy	[235]
	Gilitrutt	[240]
	Hildur the Fairy Queen	[244]
	A Clergyman’s daughter married to a Fairy Man	[253]
	The Clergyman’s daughter in Prestsbakki	[256]
	The Changeling	[257]

II. [Specimens of old Icelandic Poetry]
	From the “Völuspá”	[260]
	From the “Sólar Ljód” or “Sun Song”	[262]
	From the Poems relating to Sigurd & Brynhild	[265]
	“The Hávamál” or “High Song of Odin”	[265]

III. [Poems on Northern Subjects]
	The Lay of the Vikings, by M.S.E.S.	[278]
	Do. Translated into Icelandic by the Rev. Olaf Pálsson	[279]
	The Viking’s Raven, by M.S.E.S.	[281]
	Death of the Old Norse King, by A.J.S.	[286]
	Do. Translated into Icelandic by the Rev. Olaf Pálsson	[287]

IV. Information for intending Tourists		[289]

V. Glossary		[292]

VI. Chapter on Our Scandinavian Ancestors		[293]

INDEX		[309]