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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]
[APPENDIX.]
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]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

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1. The Great Geyser in Eruption [Frontispiece.]
2. Little Dimon—Faröe [1]
3. Foola [10]
4. Naalsöe [15]
5. Thorshavn, the capital of Faröe [20]
6. Fort, at Thorshavn [23]
7. From Thorshavn—showing Faröese Boats [27]
8. Hans Petersen; a Faröese boatman [28]
9. Basalt Caves—South point of Stromoe [32]
10. Portland Huk—looking south [35]
11. Needle Rocks or Drongs—off Portland Huk [38]
12. Bjarnarey [43]
13. Westmanna Skerries [43]
14. Cape Reykjanes—showing Karl’s Klip (cliff) [45]
15. Coast near Reykjavik [45]
16. Eldey [46]
17. Icelandic shoes, snuff-box, distaff, head-dress, & fishermen’s two-thumbed mits [53]
18. Reykjavik, from behind the town [67]
19. Icelandic Lady in full dress, from a Photograph [68]
20. View on the Route to Thingvalla [69]
21. Ravine [73]
22. Descent into the Almannagjá [81]
23. Almannagjá [82]
24. Fording the Oxerá [83]
25. Priest’s House at Thingvalla [84]
26. Althing and Lögberg from behind the church [87]
27. Lake of Thingvalla from the Lögberg [89]
28. Waterfall of the Oxerá as seen from the Lögberg [90]
29. Vent of Tintron [94]
30. Cinder-range of Vari-coloured Hills [95]
31. Crossing the Bruará [104]
32. The Great Geyser [129]
33. Skaptár Jökul [134]
34. Mount Hekla [135]
35. Lake of Thingvalla from the north-west [139]
36. Icelandic Farm, two hours’ ride from Reykjavik [142]
37. Music in an Icelandic home (playing the langspiel) [145]
38. Common Gull (Larus canus) [159]
39. Oræfa Jökul, the highest mountain in Iceland [160]
40. Snæfell Jökul, from fifty miles at sea [161]
41. Part of Myrdals Jökul and Kötlugjá range [184]
42. Oræfa Jökul, from the sea [185]
43. Entrance to Reydarfiord—east coast [197]
44. Near the entrance to Hornafiord [198]
45. Mr. Henderson’s Factory at the head of Seydisfiord [202]
46. Farm House, Seydisfiord [206]
47. Seydisfiord, looking east towards the sea [207]
48. Brimnæs Fjall [208]
49. Naalsöe—Faröe [212]
50. Entrance to the Sound leading to Thorshavn [213]
51. Stromoe—Faröe, looking north-east from below the Fort at Thorshavn [216]

LITTLE DIMON—FARÖE.

PEN AND PENCIL SKETCHES