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Norðurfari; or, Rambles in Iceland

Chapter 48: GENERAL INDEX.
By Pliny Miles
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The narrative follows the author's voyage to Iceland and a sequence of journeys across its settlements and interior, blending travel anecdotes with historical and linguistic notes. It sketches the island's discovery and legal assemblies, describes Reykjavik and Thingvalla, and records dramatic geological features such as geysers, hot springs, caverns, and a volcanic peak. Rural travel scenes detail horseback riding, fishing, local hospitality, and everyday life, while chapters discuss natural history, fauna, agriculture, exports, and Icelandic language and customs. Interspersed are vivid descriptions of atmosphere and scenery, practical observations on travel and lodging, and reflections on the literature and character of the inhabitants.

GENERAL INDEX.

  • Adam of Bremen, page 41.
  • Ætna, 142, 151.
  • Agriculture in Iceland, 178, 303.
  • Almannagjá, 73.
  • Althing, or Iceland Congress, 42, 45, 78.
  • Althing, Journal of, 296.
  • America discovered by the Northmen, 36.
  • Angelica Archangelica, 125.
  • Angling, 78.
  • Annexation of an island to Denmark, 148.
  • Apavatn Lake, 97.
  • Arbrandsá river, 115.
  • Arnason, Jon, Librarian of Public Library, 309.
  • Atmosphere, its transparency, 141.
  • Barrow, the English traveler, 206.
  • Bath in the Geyser, 111.
  • Beard a protection against the elements, 121.
  • Beards worn in Iceland, 60.
  • Beards worn by the gods, 249.
  • Bessastath, 63.
  • Biarni Heriulfson, the First Discoverer of America, 63.
  • Birds—the curlew, 169;
    • cormorant, 223;
    • eider-duck, 219;
    • western eider, 221;
    • fulmar, 168;
    • gannet, or solan goose, 31, 224;
    • Iceland gull, 228;
    • skua gull, 228;
    • jer-falcon, 230;
    • white owl, 229;
    • penguin, 222;
    • plover, 169;
    • pochard, 118;
    • ptarmigan, 90;
    • puffin, 163, 168;
    • ravens, 114, 170;
    • sea-fowl on the Westmann Islands, 163;
    • on the coast of Iceland, 198;
    • snow-birds, 226;
    • tern, or sea-swallow, 107, 198.
  • Bjarnarfell mountain, 112.
  • Bjolfell mountain, 141, 145.
  • Blacksmithing, 89.
  • Blue berry, the only fruit in Iceland, 157.
  • Books published in Iceland, 295.
  • Bræthratunga church, 119.
  • Brandy, use of it in Iceland, 180.
  • Breithifjorth, 313.
  • Briem, Rev. Johan, 123.
  • Brinjulfsson, Gisli, 311.
  • Bruará or Bridge River, 97.
  • Bruce’s Address, in Icelandic and English, 286–7.
  • Brydone, 93, 135.
  • Caraway growing spontaneously in Iceland, 125.
  • Cathedral worship in Reykjavik, 306.
  • Cattegat, 17, 21, 22, 320.
  • Cave in a hill, 96.
  • Cave of Surtshellir, 109, 243, note.
  • Christianity introduced into Iceland, 82.
  • Christiansand, 23, 319.
  • Churchyards and burial customs, 178.
  • Clays, beautifully colored, 102, 191, 200, 208.
  • College at Reykjavik, 57.
  • Columbus, his visit to Iceland, 39.
  • Copenhagen, 17, 320.
  • Craters of Hekla, 138, 143.
  • Dancing on ship-board, 317.
  • Danish laws in Iceland, 298.
  • Danish merchants in Reykjavik, 306.
  • Dining on Mount Hekla, 140.
  • Diseases in Iceland, 305.
  • Domestic animals of Iceland, 55.
  • Domestic labor of the Icelanders, 58, 293.
  • Eddas, poems of the early Icelanders, 271.
  • Edda, the Elder; ascribed to Sæmund Frode, 271.
  • Edda, the Younger; ascribed to Snorri Sturlason, 272.
  • Egilson, Sweinborn, 52, 308.
  • Eider-down beds, 127, 218.
  • Elsinore castle and town, 17, 22, 320.
  • Eric the Red, 35.
  • Ericsson, descendant of Eric the Red, 36.
  • Exports of Iceland, 56, 298.
  • Eyjafjalla Jokull, 142, 151, 160, 315.
  • Farming in Iceland, 179, 182, 303.
  • Farming tools, 117.
  • Faroe Isles, 24, 25, 233.
  • Feasts, in old times, 59.
  • Ferryman on the Hvitá river, 185.
  • Fish, Iceland method of curing, 215.
  • Fishing season in Iceland, 116.
  • Fish lake, its disappearance, 152.
  • Finn Magnusen, 37.
  • Finnsen, William, Treasurer of Iceland, 28.
  • Floki, a pirate, 170.
  • Flower on Mount Hekla, 136.
  • Flowers on a desert island, 121.
  • Fourth of July at sea, 23, 24.
  • Franklin’s Story of a Whistle, in Icelandic, 289.
  • French officers traveling in Iceland, 66, 70, 76, 84.
  • French vessel wrecked in Iceland, 315.
  • Game in Iceland, 55, 56, 90, 169, 170.
  • Gardar Swarfarson, 35.
  • Garden vegetables, 62, 179.
  • Geimar’s Iceland, Greenland, and Spitzbergen, 317.
  • Geographical names and terms, 85.
  • Geyser, Eruptions of, 105.
  • Geyser, its appearance when still, 100.
  • Gissur Thorvaldsen, son-in-law of Snorri Sturlason, 274.
  • Graba, a Danish traveler in Faroe, 236.
  • Greenland, discovery of, 35.
  • Grenadier island, 31, 314.
  • Grænavatn, or Green Lake, 142, 201.
  • Gudmundsen, Thomas, 175.
  • Hacon, King of Norway, 274.
  • Hafnarfiorth, 63, 213, 215.
  • Hávamál, an Eddaic Poem, 275.
  • Haying season, 303.
  • Heath, 157, 158, 159.
  • Heimskringla, 275.
  • Hjalli, 195.
  • Hekla, ascent of, 132.
    • Catalogue of its eruptions, 153.
    • its height, 315.
    • its last eruption, in 1845, 134, 138.
    • seen from a distance, 95, 115, 128, 161, 314.
    • View from the summit, 140, 151.
  • Helsingborg, 21.
  • Herdisa, wife of Snorri Sturlason, 273.
  • Hlitharvatn, 198.
  • Holland, Dr. 135, 297.
  • “Horrible Lava,” 211.
  • Horses in Iceland, 65, 116, 129, 298.
  • Hospitality of the Icelanders, 197.
  • Hot Springs, 187.
  • Hraungerthi, 177.
  • Hruni, and its hospitable clergyman, 122.
  • Hunting sea-fowl in the Westmann islands, 163.
  • Hvitá or White river, 118, 119, 185.
  • Iceland, its discovery and settlement, 35.
    • its situation and extent, 48.
    • Hymn, Jacob weeping over Rachel, 288.
    • Newspaper, quotation from, 291.
    • Youths educated in France, 316.
  • Icelander in the Wars of Napoleon, 293.
  • Icelandic language, 270.
  • Icelandic poetry, its peculiar construction, 282.
  • Imports of Iceland, 56.
  • Indians in America in battle with the Icelanders, 38.
  • Ingolf, plants the first settlement in Iceland, 35.
  • Islands, Sandey and Nesey, in Thingvalla Lake, 92.
  • Johnson, Bjarni, President of the Iceland college at Reykjavik, 63, 66, 74, 77, 217.
  • Jonson, Rev. at Vogsósar, 196.
  • Kirkubær, 139.
  • Krisuvik, 200.
  • Ladies riding on horseback, 91, 215.
  • Laugardalr, or Vale of Warm Springs, 94.
  • Laugarfjall mountain, 112.
  • Laugman, or administrator of the laws, 42.
  • Lava, 93, 126, 211.
  • Lava from eruption of Mount Hekla, 134, 146.
  • Laxá, or Salmon river, 68, 124.
  • Lilloise, French vessel lost in the Arctic Sea, 316.
  • Lindesness, Cape, 319.
  • Literature of Iceland, 52, 270, 281.
  • Louis Philippe’s liberality to the Icelanders, 316.
  • Markarfliot river, 161.
  • Marsh, Hon. Geo. P., opinion of the Icelandic language, 292.
  • Meadows in Iceland, 115, 116, 125.
  • Meal Sack island, 31, 314.
  • Milton’s Paradise Lost, translated by Thorlakson, 53;
    • extracts from, 283.
  • Mud Geyser, 206.
  • Myggeness island, 236.
  • Mythology of the Scandinavians, 242.
    • Index to, 331.
  • Myvatn, 203.
  • Needles, the, 314.
  • Newspapers in Iceland, 296.
  • Newspaper, quotation from, 291.
  • Næfrholt, 129, 159.
  • Norðurfari, 312.
  • Norway, coast of, 23, 319.
  • Norwegian collectors in Faroe, 240.
  • Ornithology of Iceland, 218, 226.
  • Petrifactions, 191.
  • Pfeiffer, Madam, 95, 123, 161.
  • Philmore, Mr., an English traveler, 210.
  • Plum-pudding Stone, 199.
  • Pope’s Essay on Man, in Icelandic, 53.
    • Quotation from, 285.
  • Portland, or Dyarholar, 315.
  • Postal arrangements in Iceland, 56.
  • Post-ship, time of sailing, 56.
  • Products of Iceland, 55, 56, 295, 298.
  • Ranthrys, Mr., 308.
  • Reindeer in Iceland, 55, 170.
  • Reykir Springs, 187.
  • Reykjaness Cape, 31, 314.
  • Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland, 32, 306.
  • River of fire, 149.
  • Rolling stones down hill, 130.
  • Roses in Iceland, 157.
  • Sæmund Frode, 271.
  • Sagas, historical writings of the Icelanders, 271.
  • Scandinavian Commission, 316.
  • Scythes used by the Icelanders, 115, 305.
  • Sharks, 26.
  • Ship from Iceland; the “Saga,” 302.
  • Sivertsen, the Misses, and Mr., 308, 311.
  • Sivertsen, Mr., jun., 316, 317.
  • Skagen Horn, 320.
  • Skager Rack, 319.
  • Skalds or Minstrels, 42.
  • Skalholt, 44, 172.
  • Skaptar Jokull, 115, 147, 151.
    • Great eruption of, 147.
  • Skarth, 127, 159.
  • Sleeping in a church, 127.
  • Snæfell Jokull, 151, 313.
  • Snorri Thorfinson, first European born in America, 37.
  • Snow on Mount Hekla, 137, 146.
  • Spallanzani, 135.
  • Stapi and basaltic cliffs, 314.
  • Steam jet in the Sulphur Mountains, 205.
  • Steam power without fuel, 205, 208.
  • Stifftamptman, 45.
  • Stilhoff, Captain, 318.
  • Strandar Kirkja, 197.
  • Strokr or New Geyser, 104, 108.
  • Submarine eruption, 147.
  • Sulphur Mountains, 200–208.
  • Superstition among the Northmen, 195.
  • Surtshellir cave, 109, 243, note.
  • Sveinson, Jon, 309.
  • Swein Ethrithson, 41.
  • Swimming a river, 119.
  • Sysselman, a merry one, 173.
  • Thingvalla, 43, 73, 78.
  • Thingvalla Lake, 72.
  • Thiorsá river, 115, 126, 159, 172, 315.
  • Thorarensen, Rev. S., 177.
  • Thorarensen, Stefan, 178, 185.
  • Thorlakson, Jon, the Iceland Poet, 53, 281.
  • Thorlakson’s Translation of Milton and Pope, 282.
  • Thorwaldsen, 37, 52.
  • Tindfjalla Jokull, 142, 151, 160, 314.
  • Tin Tron, an exhausted crater, 94.
  • Torfa Jokull, 314.
  • Trade of Iceland; probable results of opening it to the world, 299, 302.
  • Trollekone-finger, or Witch’s-finger, in Faroe, 236.
  • Trout-fishing in Iceland, 74, 76.
  • Vestri Rangá river, 129.
  • Vesuvius, 142, 151.
  • Vinland, the name given to America by the Icelanders, 37.
  • Vogelberg chasm, in Faroe, 237.
  • Vogsósar, 196.
  • Volcanic island rising from the sea, 147.
  • Volcanic sand, 135, 199.
  • Voluspá, the song of the Prophetess, 275.
  • Westmann Islands, 141, 161, 165, 166.
  • Whales, 25, 26.