ILLUSTRATIONS AND MAPS IN VOL. IL 

 Reproduction in color of a drawing by the author Frontispiece 



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From an Icelandic MS., fourteenth century i 



The conception of the northern and western lands and islands 



» in Norse literature 2 



Icelandic representation of the northern and western lands as 

 connected with one another, by Sigurd Stefansson, circa 



1590 7 



Eskimos cutting up a whale 12 



Fight with mythical creatures [from an Icelandic MS] 15 



Felling trees. Marginal decoration of the Jonsbok (fifteenth 



century) 24 



The existing drawing of the runic stone from Honen, Ringerike 27 



Map by the Icelander Jon Gudmundsson, born 1574 34 



The game of Lacrosse among the Menominee Indians 39 



Game of ball among the Eskimo of Greenland 41 



Distribution of the Eskimo [after W. Thalbitzer, 1904] 67 



Kayak-fishers and a women's boat (" umiak ") 70 



Carved walrus of Eskimo work, of the twelfth century (?) 80 



Eskimo playing ball with a stuffed seal 85 



Ruins of church at Kakortok in the Eastern Settlement [after 



Th. Groth] 103 



Salmon-fishing in Vazdal by Ketilsfjord in the Eastern Set- 

 tlement 104 



From an Icelandic MS. of the fourteenth century 109 



A portion of Gourmont's map of 1548 122 



The rock Hvitserk, and a fight with a Greenland Pygmy [after 



Olaus Magnus, 1557] 123 



Bjarmas and Skridfinns fighting on ski and riding reindeer [after 



Olaus Magnus, 1555] i39 



On snow-shoes through the border-lands of Norway [after Olaus 



Magnus, 1555] 141 



Cutting up a whale [from an Icelandic MS. of the fourteenth 



century of Magnus Lanaboter's Icelandic Land Law] .... 155 



Cutting up a whale [from an Icelandic MS.] 157 



Cutting up a whale [from an Icelandic MS. of the sixteenth 



century] 162 



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