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"Come, come!" I ran. Hans and the Icelanders never stirred. "Look!" cried the Professor. "Arne Saknussemm!" replied my uncle. "Do you yet doubt?" I made no answer; and I returned in silence to my lava seat in a state of utter speechless consternation. Here was crushing evidence.
In exchange for these commodities, which of course they are obliged to get from Europe, the Icelanders export raw wool, knitted stockings, mittens, cured cod, and fish oil, whale blubber, fox skins, eider-down, feathers, and Icelandic moss. During the last few years the exports of the island have amounted to about 1,200,000 lbs. of wool and 500,000 pairs of stockings and mittens.
Among the most important were the sagas of the Norwegian kings and the family sagas. The latter tell us about the first generations of native Icelanders. They are all anonymous and the majority of them were written in the thirteenth century. Most of them contain a more or less historical core.
But it matters not to me what Icelanders may call 'The Bondman, if they will honor me by reading it in the open-hearted spirit and with the free mind with which they are content to read of Grettir and of his fights with the Troll." From the Author's Preface. CAPT'N DAVY'S HONEYMOON. A Manx Yarn. 12mo. Paper, 50 cents; cloth, $1.00. "A new departure by this author.
On the other hand, certain traditions, with regard to the discovery of a vast continent by their forefathers away in the south-west, seems never entirely to have died out of the memory of the Icelanders; and in the month of February, 1477, there arrives at Reykjavik, in a barque belonging to the port of Bristol, a certain long-visaged, grey-eyed Genoese mariner, who was observed to take an amazing interest in hunting up whatever was known on the subject.
A lively young gentleman he was; a very nice young man; told some queer stories about the Icelanders; didn't see much of the country, but made a very nice book about what he saw; had a great time at the governor's, and drank every body drunk under the table, etc.
During the centuries we have been discussing especially, however, the seventeenth the Icelanders probably wrote more verse than any other nation has ever done ranging in quality, to be sure, from the lowest to the highest.
Many were the complaints I heard from people who had taken out female servants, paying their expenses and giving them high wages, only to lose them before they had been a month in the province. Their sole resource then was to employ Icelanders, who often could not speak a word of English, so that all directions had to be given by pantomime.
II. Original Discovery of Greenland by the Icelanders, in the Ninth Century III. Early Discovery of Winland, or America, by the Icelanders, about the year 1001 IV. Travels of two Mahometans into India and China, in the Ninth Century V. Travels of Rabbi Benjamin from Spain to China, in the Twelfth Century VI. Travels of an Englishman in Tartary, in 1243 VII. Sketch of the Revolutions in Tartary
Iceland is not so barren as you might imagine from its extreme cold, for gardening is cultivated throughout the island: but there are no large trees." MR. WILTON. "The present houses of the Icelanders differ little from those used by their ancestors, who first colonized the island, and are, no doubt, the best fitted for the climate.
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