Visit to Iceland - and the Scandinavian North

Visit to Iceland, by Ida Pfeiffer
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Title: Visit to Iceland and the Scandinavian North Author: Ida Pfeiffer
Release Date: May 7, 2007 [eBook #1894] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK VISIT TO ICELAND***
Transcribed from the 1853 Ingram, Cooke, and Co. edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org; second proof by Mike Ruffell.
VISIT TO ICELAND
AND THE
SCANDINAVIAN NORTH
TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN OF
MADAME IDA PFEIFFER.
WITH
Numerous Explanatory Notes
AND
EIGHT TINTED ENGRAVINGS.
TO WHICH ARE ADDED
AN ESSAY ON ICELANDIC POETRY , FROM THE FRENCH OF M. BERGMANN; A TRANSLATION OF THE ICELANDIC POEM THE VOLUSPA; AND A BRIEF SKETCH OF ICELANDIC HISTORY . Second Edition. LONDON: INGRAM, COOKE, AND CO. 1853
ADVERTISEMENT TO THE FIRST EDITION
The success which attended the publication in this Series of Illustrated Works of A Woman’s Journey round the World, has induced the publication of the present volume on a country so little known as Iceland, and about which so little recent information exists. The translation has been carefully made, expressly for this Series, from ...