Pen and pencil sketches of Faröe and Iceland

by Andrew James Symington

INDEX

• Abrasions of Ice-drift, [72], [76], [86]
• Academy, [61]
• Ailsa, [44]
• Akur Eyri, [57]
• Almannagjá, [77]-[82], [88]-[89]
• Alsey, [44]
• Althing, [86]-[90], [141]
• America discovered by Northmen, [306]
• Amphitheatre, head of Seydisfiord, [201]
• Amptmen, [154]
• Anchorage at Reykjavik, [48]
• Anglen, [294]
• Angles, [303]
• Apavatn, [103]
• Appearance of Great Geyser, [126]
• Approach to Faröe, [13]
• Approach to the Geysers, [106]-[107]
• Arch of rock under water, [111]
• Arctic discovery in A.D. 1266, [307]
• Armannsfell, [140]
• Arrival of Steamer, [50]
• Ascent of Hrafnagjá, [92]
• Ashes carried to Bergen, [169],
  • to Faröe, [176], [191]
• Auks, [15]
• Balls of fire, [164]
• Bannockburn, Burn’s, in Icelandic, [65]
• Basin of Great Geyser, [108]
• Bay at Reykjavik, [160]
• Beck, Rev. S. D. [84]
• Beds, [72]
• Bells of water, [113]
• Berufiord, [199], [201]
• Biarni Sveinsson and his sister Salvör, [226]
• Bible associations, [127]-[128]
• Birches, [91], [100], [106]
• Birds very tame, [100]
• Bjarnarey, [43]
• Blae-berries, [106]
• Blesi, [111], [136],
  • Blue tint of, [112]
• Boats’ crews, fishing, [99]
• Boxes for baggage, [70]
• Breida Fiord, [47], [199]
• Breidamerkr Jökul, [197]
• Bressay, [8]
• Bridge at Bruará Waterfall, [103]-[105]
• Brimnæs Fjall, [208]
• Britain’s, honour and duty, [308]
• British race, Origin of, [293]
• Brown, Capt. John, of Harper’s Ferry, [299]
• Bruará, [103],
  • Fording of, [103]-[105], [135]
• Bruce’s address at Bannockburn, in Icelandic, [65]
• Brushwood, [91]
• Brynjúlfsson, Gísli, [65]
• Bunsen’s Geyser theory, [124]
• Buttercups, [108]
• Butterflies, [105]
• Canute, [303]
• Cathedral at Reykjavik, [48], [62]-[64]
• Celtic nations, Traits of, [298]
• Central authority, [297]
• Central molten fire, [129]
• Chadbourne’s, Professor, night quarters at Farm, [133]
• Chalcedony, [204]
• Changeling, The, [257]
• Chaos, Iceland in winter like, [75]
• Chasms, [91]
• Chimney capped amphitheatre of hills, [205]
• Christianity introduced, [88], [306]
• Christian Names, [182]
• Church Swimming, [170]
• Church at Thorshavn, [24]
• Church rebuilding, [83]
• Churchyard at Reykjavik, [66],
  • at Thingvalla, [141]
• Cinder-range, [94]-[96]
• Circassian origin of the Northmen, [302]
• Clearness of northern atmosphere, [47]
• Clergyman’s daughter married to a Fairy Man, [253]
• Climate of Iceland, [55]-[58], [67]
• Coal, [97]
• Coast near Reykjavik, [45]
• Cod-fish Heads, [66]
• Colonies, Planting, [300], [302]
• Coloured Clays, [131]
• Columbus, [42], [307]
• Column of Fire, [173]
• Commissariat on Shipboard, [5]
• Conundrum, Icelandic, [55]
• Cooking at the Geysers, [115]
• Coppice, [91]
• Cormorants, [15]
• Corrivreckan, [13]
• Corrugated Lava, [76], [86], [139]
• Costume of the Faröese, [22], [28], [29];
  • of Icelandic Ladies, [51], [52], [68]
• Cowper on Earthquakes and Volcanoes, [193]
• Cragsmen, [14]
• Crater, Extinct, [93]-[94]
• Crimes, [155]
• Criminals, [88]
• Curlew, [72], [134]
• Dark School, The, [219]
• Danish Monopolists, [41]-[42]
• Death of the Old Norse King, [206]
  • Do. in Icelandic, [207]
• Defile, [79]
• Derivation of name Faröe, [12]
• Descent into Almannagjá, [78]-[81]
• Diapensia, [74]
• Dimon, [14]
• Dirty Habits, [98]
• Distaff in use, [207]
• Distance, Ideas of, compounded, [47]
• Dome of water, [113]
• Donny, M., of Ghent’s Geyser Experiment, [125]
• Drainage needed, [142]
• Drángr, [44]
• Dream at the Geyser, [116]
• Dried Fish, [99]
• Drongs, [179]
• Druid days, [296]
• Dwarf Willows, [139]
• Dyrhólaey, [39]
• Earthquakes, [164], [169], [172], [173], [175], [176].
  • List of, [196]
• East, Iceland recalls the, [101], [103], [127]-[128]
• East coast, [197]
• Education, [61]-[62]
• Eider-down, [54].
  • Ducks, [48]
• Einarsdrángr, [44]
• Eldey, [46], [162]
• Endurance, Powers of, [298]
• English Tapestry and Linen in Iceland, [41]
• Eric, [41], [307]
• Erlendsey, [44]
• Eruptions, List of, [195]-[196]
• Essian Mountains, [160]
• Evening at Governor’s, [144]
• Exports from Faröe, [25]
• Extinct Geysers, [110]
• Eyafialla Jökul, [162]
• Factories, [200], [203].
  • Mr. Henderson’s, [202]
• Fair, Annual, [99]
• Fair Isle, [7]-[8], [214]
• Fairy Tales, [226]
• Famine and pestilence, [172], [192]
• Farms, [72], [96]-[98], [101].
  • Above Seydisfiord, [205].
  • Fifty destroyed, [173]
• Faröese, [12]-[34], [209]
• Faröese Atmospheric effects, [33].
  • Birds, [15], [34].
  • Boatman, [28].
  • Boatmen in saloon of steamer, [212].
  • Book, [211].
  • Cataracts, [33].
  • Interior, Mediæval aspect of, [26].
  • Knives, [26].
  • Lakes, [33].
  • Tidal currents, [33]
• Faxa Fiord, [47], [199]
• Fellow travellers, [3]
• Ferns, [88]
• Feudal system, [297]
• Fiords, [198]-[201].
  • Uses of, [200]
• First sight of Iceland, [38]
• Fisheries at Westmanna Islands, [40]
• Fishermen on East coast of Scotland, [6]
• Fishing boats, Faröese, [28]
• Fish, Mode of catching, at Lax-elv, [71]
• Fissures at Althing, containing water, [87]
• Fitful Head, [8]
• Fishermen’s houses at Reykjavik, [66]
• Flames and floods, [168], [171]
• Flosi, [87]
• Flowers larger in the North, [73]
• Fly, The, [224]
• Foaming fire-stream, [189]
• Foam-flakes, [9]
• Folk-lore, [305]
• Food, [97]
• Foola, [10]
• Forest, Dwarf, [91], [100]
• Formation of Faröe islands, [12]-[13], [32]-[33]
• Fort at Thorshavn, [23]
• Fox, [210]
• Free institutions, [296], [300]
• French policy and interests in Iceland, [58]-[59]
• Frodi, Ari, [125]
• Front street of Reykjavik, [52]
• Frost, Action of, on rocks, [14]
• Fuel, [97]
• Garden-plots at Reykjavik, [67]
• Geirfuglasker, [44]
• Geranium, Wild, [73]
• German race, [293]
• Germs of British character, [298], [301]
• Geyser bumpers, [130]
• Geysers, how formed, [109], [100]
• Geyser Eruption, [117].
  • Expedition, Arranging for, [50]-[51]
• Geyser ground, [123]
• Geyser water, Analysis of, [109]
• Gilitrutt, [240]
• Glaciers, [30], [179]
• Glades, [74]
• Glen above Seydisfiord, [205]
• Globes, Vast red-hot, [174]
• Glossary, [292]
• Goblin, The, and the Cowherd, [222]
• Goblin’s Whistle, The, [225]
• Government, [154]
• Governor, [154]
• Grand eruption of Great Geyser, [117]
• Grassy plot, [74]
• Great Geyser, [107]
• Grimsey, Island of, [57]
• Gritty slope, [107]-[108]
• Grœnavatn, [103]
• Guide, [50]
• Guillemots, [15]
• Guldbringu, Sysla, [99]
• Gudmundsson, M., [157]
• Gudrun and Sigurd, [265]
• Gusts in Faröe, [28]
• Haco, [306]
• Harold Harfagra, [304]
• Hastings, [307]
• Haukadal, [103], [107]
  • Bird’s eye view of, [125]
• “Hávamál,” The, or High Song of Odin, [266]
• Hay-harvest, [84].
  • In túns, [85], [96].
  • 200 Loads of, destroyed, [167].
• Head-dress of Icelandic females, [49], [51], [68]
• Heimaklettur, [43]
• Heimaey, [40]
• Hekla, [99], [135],
  • Eruption of in A.D. 1766, [136].
  • Abode of Hela, [138]
• Heradsthing, [155]
• Hermanness, [11]
• Hildur the Fairy Queen, [244]
• Holum, [137]
• Hornafiord, [198]
• Horses sure-footed, [73], [75], [80], [92], [105]-[106]
• Hostess’ duties to Guests, [133]-[134]
• Hotel at Reykjavik, [64], [149]
• Hot Springs, [112].
  • At Laugervatn, [96]
• Houses of Faröese Fishermen, [21]
• Houses at Reykjavik, [67]
• Household Suffrage, [153]
• Hrafnagjá, [79], [89], [92], [139]
• Hummocks on pasture land, [85]
• Hung-milk, [97]
• Hvitá, [103]
• Ice-floes from Greenland, [55]-[58]
• Icebergs from Spitzbergen, [55]-[58]
• Ice-drift, Effects of, [72], [76], [86]
• Iceland Spar, [144],
  • where found, [204]
• Iceland left behind, [209]
• Illusory feeling over flowing water, [105]
• Indoor occupations, [98]
• Ingolf, [304]
• Intercourse between Britain and Iceland in Fifteenth century, [41]-[42]
• Inundations of melted ice, [166]
• Islands Minni, [146]
• Islendingur newspaper, [157]
• Islet-patches, [108]
• Jacks-of-all-trades, [98]
• Jökuls, [106]
• Jökulsá, [197].
  • formed, [166]
• Jonsbook, [155]
• Jonson, Rector, [157]
• Jutes, [303]
• Kaupstadr, [40]
• Kirkuboe, Church of, [210]
• Kiss of peace, [102]
• Kitchen fires, [72]
• Kittiwakes, [15]
• Kleifervatn, [158]
• Krisuvik, [45].
  • Ride to, [158]
• Kötlugjá, [125], [162].
  • Eruptions of, [163]-[177]
• Lambs, Mode of carrying, [101]
• Landfoged, [155]
• Lang Jökul, [103]
• Lang-spiel, [144]
• Laugervalla, [96], [99], [103]
• Laugervatn, [96]
• Language, Scandinavian element in, [294]
• Launay’s, Capt., vessel, Agile, [150]
• Latin conversation, [85], [141]
• Latin Vowel Sounds, [34]
• Lava-blister, [93]
• Lava, ejected by Skaptár, Bulk of, [187]
• Lava-waste, [74], [86]
• Lava-streams, Fluid, [188].
  • Extent of, [190]
• Lay of the Vikings, [278].
  • do. in Icelandic, [279]
• Laxá, [103]
• Lax-elv, or salmon river, [71]
• Leather bottle, [101]
• Leif, [307]
• Lerwick, [8].
  • Sloop, [211]
• Library at Reykjavik, [152].
  • at Thorshavn, [23]-[24]
• Light-house north of Orkney, [214]
• Lime juice, [151]
• Literature, Icelandic love of, [62]
• Little breakfast, [149]
• Little Geyser, [107], [111], [114], [123]
• Löbner, Miss, visit to [211]
• Lögberg, [86]-[90]
• Love of country, [145]
• Love of truth, [298]
• Lutheran Service at Thorshavn, [29]-[31]
• Maelsek, [46]
• Magna Charta, [297]
• Magnetic stones, [137]
• Mackenzie’s, Sir George, Geyser theory, [124]
• Markarfliót, [177]
• Meddomsmen, [155]
• Meeting on the Althing, [88]-[89]
• Milk diet, [97]-[98]
• Mits with two thumbs, [53]-[54]
• Mortality of children, [98]
• Mosquitoes, [105]
• Mud-caldrons, [158]
• Municipal institutions, [297]
• Mural precipice, [78]
• Myrdals Jökul, [162]
• Naalsöe, [15], [212]
• Naddodr, [304]
• National Song, [144]
• Native Manufactures of Iceland, [53]
• Needle Rocks or Drongs, [33]
• Nesey, [76]
• Newspapers, [157]
• Njal’s Saga, [305].
  • Scene of, [177]
• Nordurfari, [65]
• Norse Language, [183]
• Norse Words, [294],
  • Customs, [295]
• Norfolk commerce with Iceland, [41]
• Norman outgoing, [307]
• Northern “Dim,” [116]
• Northmen, The, [293].
  • Traces of, [294], [303].
  • Invade England, [303].
  • In Russia, [303].
• Noss, [9]
• Occupations of Faröese, [26].
  • Of the Icelanders, [181].
• Old Nick made himself as little as he was able, [224]
• Olfusá, [103]
• Oræfa Jökul, [185]
• Organ in Church at Thorshavn, [29]
• Our Scandinavian Ancestors, [293]
• Outfit for Iceland, [2], [289]
• Out-door Occupations, [98]
• Oxerá, [82], [88]-[90], [140].
  • Waterfall of, [78]
• Pack of Lava Blocks, [86]
• Pálsson’s, Rev. Olaf, Library, [60]-[61]
• Parliament, Functions of, [88].
  • Assembled, [152]
• Parnassia, [94], [108]
• Pasturage covered with ashes, [169], [172], [191]
• Perseverance, [298]
• Personal Liberty, [297]
• Pet Raven, [209]
• Petrifactions, Geyser, [108]
• Piratical Habits, [294], [300], [303]
• Plain, [94]
• Plateau, [74]
• Planters, [299]
• Plopping Pits, [107]
• Ploughs, [85]
• Plover, Golden, [75], [93], [100]
• Pluck, [301]
• Poems on Northern Subjects, [278]
• Poetry, Specimens of old Icelandic, [260]
• Ponies, [51].
  • Guided by the heel, [106].
  • Left to shift for themselves, [106].
  • Adventure of a, [158]
• Population of Faröe, [13], [26].
  • Of Iceland, [61]
• Porpoises, [18]
• Portland, [179], [182], [184]
• Portland Huk, [38]
• Premonitory symptoms of Geyser eruptions, [113]
• Preserved salmon, [71]
• Priest’s house, [82], [90]
• Produce, [203]
• Ptarmigan, [100]
• Puffins, [15]
• Pumice, [137]
• Puritan Fathers, [299]
• Rainfall, [55]-[56]
• Rake, [85]
• Rampart, [79]
• Randröp, Mr., [60]
• Range of vari-coloured hills, [94]-[95]
• Raven, Tame, [204]
• Ravine, [73]
• Red-hot stones, [189]
• Relay ponies, [71], [75]
• Remembrance of Iceland, The, [147]
• Representative parliaments, [153], [296], [304]
• Retrospect of Icelandic travel, [215]-[216]
• Reverence, [298]
• Reydarfiord, [199], [204], [209]
• Reykjanes, [45], [162]
• Reykjavik, [48]-[68], [143].
  • Library of, [63]-[64]
• Ride to the Geysers, [69]
• River disappears, [188]
• Rock-walls, [78], [79], [82]
• Rolling of ship, [35]
• Rollo, [307]
• Rover, Norse, [300]
• Runic characters, [306]
• Run-milk, [97]
• Sæmund gets the living of Oddi, [221].
  • Stories of, [219]
• Sagas, [305]
• Salmon-preserve of Europe, Iceland the, [59].
  • River, [144]
• Salutations, [101]-[102]
• Sandey, [76]
• Sand-glasses in church at Thorshavn, [24]
• Saula-hleith, [141]
• Scalds, [305]
• Scandinavian Ancestors, Our, [293]
• Scoriæ, [74]
• Scythe, [85]
• Sea-birds, Graceful motions of, [39]
  • Swarms of, [40], [43]
• Sea training, [294], [301]
• Sea-pinks, [76], [108]
• Sea swallows, [134]
• Sea-fowls used as food, [16]
• Sea-gull shot, [16]
• Seamanship, Shetland, [301]
• Seething clay, [112]
• Self-denial, Self-reliance, [298]
• Seydisfiord, [201]
• Sheep’s knee bone, [101]
• Shetland Isles, [8]-[11]
• Shoes, Icelandic, [53]
• Showers, [76]
• Silex, [132]
• Silica in solution, [109]
• Silver Trinkets, [53], [60], [150]
• Sira, [102]
• Sivertsen, Mr., [52]-[53].
  • His late son, [53]
• Skagi, [48]
• Skaptár Jökul, [135], [186]-[187].
  • Eruption of, in A.D. 1783, [187]-[193]
• Skialdbreid, [140]
• Skier, [97]-[98], [99]
• Skiffs of the Northmen, [302]
• Skogar-foss, [178]
• Skua-gulls, [15].
  • Mode of obtaining fish, [37]
• Sky darkened with dust and ashes, [166], [170], [171], [174], [189]
• Slag, [93]
• Slattaretind, [33]
• Sleeping Apartment in Farm, [206]
• Sleeping at Thingvalla, [91]
• Smith, Dr. R. Angus, [132]
• Smith, Icelandic use of the word, [183]
• Snæfell’s Jökul, [47], [161]
• Snaps, [203]
• Snorro Sturleson, [305]
• Snow-birds, [75], [100]
• Sog, The, [103]
• “Sólar Ljód,” or “Sun Song,” [262]
• Solheima Sand formed, [165]
• Sport, [17]-[18]
• Stappen, [161]
• Start for the Geysers, [70]
• Statistics, [180]-[182]
• Steaming Holes, [107]
• Steward’s Bell, [5]
• Stock fish, [203]
• Stock, Icelanders rear, [96]
• Stony Moor, [74]
• Store at Seydisfiord, [204]
• Streets of Thorshavn, [21]
• Strokr, [107], [110], [121], [123].
  • Eruption of, provoked by turf, [111], [121]
• Stromoe, [15].
  • Caves on, [32], [210]
• Stuffed Birds, [150]
• Sulphur Banks, [158].
  • Spring, [46]
• Sumburgh Head, [8]
• Sumpter Ponies, Mode of loading, [69]
• Sunset, [6], [44].
  • Due north, [45]
• Surnames, [182]
• Surturbrand, [205]
• Sysselmen, [154]
• Tabasheer, [109]
• Temperature of Geysers, [113].
  • Of Faröe, [29].
  • Of Iceland, [55]-[58]
• Tent in a gale, [130]
• Terns, [75]
• Thea, [149]
• Thingvalla, [86], [92], [140].
  • Lake of, [76], [92].
  • Vale of, [77]-[80]
• Thingore, [137]
• Thióthólfr Newspaper, [157]
• Thorláksson, [62]
• Thorshavn, [18]-[31]
• Thorlevsholm, [88]
• Thorpe, [200]
• Thrasi’s Treasure, [178]
• Thorwaldsen’s Font, [63]
• Thyckvaboe, [169]
• Thyme, [94], [108]
• Time of Henry III, [41]
• Tints of Mountains, [47], [50].
  • Peaks, Reykjavik, [160]
• Tintron, Crater of, [93]-[94]
• Toilet at the Geyser, [120]
• Tourists, Information for intending, [2]
• Trackless wastes, [75]
• Tracks worn in Turf, [100]
• Traffic, [203]
• Trampe, Count Von, [58]
• Transparency of Atmosphere, [141]
• Trap Hills in Faröe, [13], [32]
• Trial by Jury, [300]
• Trout, [83]
• Tún, [72], [85], [96]
• Túngufljot, [103]
• Turf-fires, [72]
• Turf-roofs, [19], [21], [40], [49], [82], [90], [96]
• Two-thumbed mits, [149]
• Una the Fairy, [235]
• Unpacking Traps, [83]
• Vale of Thingvalla, [77]-[80]
• Varder or Guiding Marks, [75]
• Vegetables grown, [67]
• Velvet Turf, [106]
• Ventilation on Shipboard, [11]
• Véron’s, Capt., Vessel, Artemise, [151]
• Ver-tima, [98]
• Vestments of the Bishop, [63]
• Videy, [48]
• Vikings, [301].
  • Raven, The, [281]
• Volcanic History, [193].
  • Sand, [93].
  • Wastes, [72]
• Völuspá [260]
• War, Thirst for, [298]
• Waterfalls, [39].
  • Of the Oxerá, [90].
  • Above Seydisfiord, [204]
• Water-floods, [167], [172]
• Waterfowl, Lines to, [36]
• Westmanna Islands, [39]-[45].
  • In the 13th and 19th century, [42]-[43]
• Westmanna Skerries, [43], [44]
• Westmannshavn, [40]
• Whales, [179]-[80].
  • Whale-flesh, [22].
  • Rib-rafters, [72].
  • Steak, [213]
• Whirlpool at the Monk, [13]
• Wild-flowers, [74], [88], [100], [134]
• Wilderness, [75]
• William the Conqueror, [307]
• Willows, Dwarf, [91], [100], [106]
• Witchcraft, [88]
• Wrinkled rock surfaces, [76], [86], [139]

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SUMMER MEMORIES AND MUSINGS.

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