An Historical and Descriptive Account of Iceland, Greenland, and the Faroe IslandsOliver & Boyd, 1844 - 416 ページ |
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Althing ancient animals appearance augite basaltic beds birds bishop boat Bygd century character Christian cliffs climate colony colour common covered Crymogea curious Danish district dolerite eastern coast eruption Faroe Faroe Islands Fiord fish former formerly frequently Geyser Gissur Gliemann Graah Graba Greenland ground heathen Hekla Henderson Hist History of Greenland history of Iceland Iceland Iceland moss inhabitants interior island Jökul king known lagmann land Landnamabok Landt latter lava Mackenzie mass miles mountains named nations natives nearly northern Norway Norwegian numerous occur ocean Olaf Olafsen Olafsen's Reise peculiar period present principal probably produced regions remarkable rising rivers rocks sagas sailed seems seen seldom ships shore side skalds Snorro snow soon species springs stone strata Sturlunga Saga summer Syssel thick thither tion Torfæus trachyte trap valleys Vinland visited volcanic voyage whilst whole winter zeolite
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397 ページ - Atlantic surge Pours in among the stormy Hebrides ; Who can recount what transmigrations there Are annual made ? what nations come and go ? And how the living clouds on clouds arise ? Infinite wings ; till all the plume-dark air, And rude-resounding shore, are one wild cry.
92 ページ - And sends the fowls to us in care On daily visits through the air. He hangs in shades the orange bright Like golden lamps in a green night, And does in the...
253 ページ - I now advise you to prepare for your departure as soon as possible ; but me ye shall bring to the promontory where I thought it good to dwell. It may be that it was a prophetic word which fell from my mouth, about abiding there for a season.
127 ページ - His countrymen," says an eloquent writer, "love to compare him with the most celebrated of the Roman orators, to whom both in character and fortune he bore a striking resemblance. Both were called to the highest offices in their native land by the voice of their admiring countrymen — both amidst the cares and distractions of political life, soothed their labours by literature, and won its brightest honors from their less busy contemporaries, — both lived at a time when the bulwarks of freedom...
303 ページ - Next are the skua gulls, regarded with an anxious eye by the kittiwakes above. Nest follows nest in crowded rows along the whole breadth of the rock, and nothing is visible but the heads of the mothers and the white rocks between. A little higher on the narrow shelves sit the guillemots and auks, arranged as on parade, with their white breasts to the sea, and so close that a hailstone could not pass between them. The puffins take the highest station, and, though scarcely visible, betray themselves...
182 ページ - is that of unsuspecting frankness, pious contentment, and a steady liveliness of temperament, combined with a strength of intellect and acuteness of mind, seldom to be met with in other parts of the world.
27 ページ - July, the mountains in the interval often ceasing to eject any matter; and the large stones thrown into the air were compared to a swarm of bees clustering round the mountain-top; the noise was heard like loud thunder forty miles distant, and the accompanying earthquakes were more severe at Krisuvik, eighty miles westward, than at half the distance on the opposite side. The eruptions are said to be in general more violent during a north or west wind than when it blows from the south or east, and...
178 ページ - Iceland, the sources of heat are still more plentiful ; and their proximity to large masses of ice, seems almost to point out the future destiny of that island. The ice of its glaciers may enable its inhabitants to liquefy the gases with the least expenditure of mechanical force ; and the heat of its volcanoes may supply the power necessary for their condensation. Thus, in a future age, power may become the staple commodity of the Icelanders...
181 ページ - ... scorched rocks of rugged lava, or enclosed between the raging sea and the black cliffs, they become serious, quiet, humble, and little disposed to exert themselves, unless impelled by necessity.
304 ページ - The puffins came wandering from their holes, and regarded the universal confusion with comic gestures. The kittiwakes remained composedly in their nests, whilst the cormorants tumbled headlong into the sea. Similar great congregations of the feathered race appear where the shores are rocky, high, and...