INDEX 



Aasen, L, i. 352; ii. 9 



Abalus, Island of, i. 70, 71, 72, 73, 118, 



365 



Ablabius, i. 129, 142, 144, 155 



Abu Hamid, ii. 145, 146 



Abyss, at the edge of the world, i. 12, 

 84, 157-9. 195. 199". ii- i5o» 154. 240 



Adam of Bremen, i. 21, 59, 84, 112, 

 135. 159. 179. 182, 183, 184-202, 204, 

 206, 229, 252, 258, 303, 312, 353, 362, 

 363. 365, 367, 382-4; ii- 2, II, 26, 29, 

 31, 32, 58, 63, 64, 65, loi, 143, 147- 

 54, 165, 168, 177, 192, 214, 224, 237, 

 238, 240, 243, 278, 284 



"Adogit," Northern people, L 131-3, 



143. 194 

 Msea, Isle of, i. 13 

 ^lian, i. 12, 16, 17 

 ^ningia, i. loi, 104 

 ^stii (see Esthonians) 

 iEthicus Istricus, i. 154-5, 187, 188 

 "^tternis stapi" (the tribal cliff), L 



18-9 

 Africa, Supposed connection with 



Wineland, i. 326; ii. 1-2, 29, 61, 240, 



248, 280 

 Agathemerus, i. 44 

 Agricola, i. 107-8, 117 

 Agrippa, i. 97, 106 



Ahlenius, K., i. 43, 93, 104, 112, 131 

 Aithanarit, i. 144, 153, 154 

 Alani, i. 188, 383 



Albertus Magnus, ii. 158, 163, 178, 234 

 Albi, mappamundi at, ii. 183 

 Albion (see Britain), i. 38, 39, 117 

 Aleutians, ii. 69, 71 

 Alexander the Great, i. 19, 182, 363; 



ii. 57, 206, 207, 213 

 Alexander VI., Pope, Letter from, on 



Greenland (1492-3), ii. 106, 121-2 

 Alexander, Sir William, ii. 3 

 Alfred, King, i. 104, 160, 169-81, 204, 



252; ii. 156, 243 

 Al-Gazal, voyage to the land of the 



Magus, ii. 200-2 



Algonkin tradition, ii. 7-8, 93; lacrosse 

 among, ii. 40 



Alociae, i. 118, 119, 132 



Amalcium (northern sea), i. 98-9, 105 



Amazons, i. 20, 87, 88, 112, 114, 150, 

 154. 159. i5o. 186, 187, 189, 198, 356, 

 383; ii. 64, 188, 197, 206, 209, 214 



Amber, i. 14, 19, 22, 23, 27, 31-4, 70, 

 71, 72, 96, loi, 106, 109-10; il 207 



Amdrup, Captain, i. 290 



America, discovered by the Norse- 

 men, i. 234, 248, 312; ii. 22, 61, 63 



Ammianus Marcellinus, i. 44, 123 



Anaxagoras, i. 12 



Anaximander of Miletus, i. 11 



Anaximenes, i. 11, 128 



Angles, i. 180 



Anglo-Portuguese expeditions of 1501, 

 ii. 331-2, 357; of 1502, ii. 332-4; of 

 1503, ii. 334-5; of 1504, ii. 335 



Angmagsalik, Greenland, i. 261, 263, 

 282, 290, 291 ; ii. 73 



" Anostos," The gulf, i. 17, 158; ii. 150, 

 240 



Ants, fabulous, i. 154, 336; ii. 197 



Apollo, worshiped among the Hyper- 

 boreans, i. 16, 18, 19 



Apollonius of Rhodes, L 19, 44 



Appulus, Guillelmus, ii. 162 



Arab myths, i. 382; ii. 10, 51, 197, 206- 

 8, 213-4; affinity to Irish, ii. 207 



Arabs, i. 362, 366; ii. 57; their trade 

 with North Russia, ii. 143-7, 194; 

 their culture, ii. 194-5; possible ex- 

 change of ideas with the Irish, ii. 

 207; Arab geographers, ii. 194-214 



Arctic, origin of the word, i. 8; Arctic 

 Circle, i. 53, 55-7, 62, 76, 117 



Arctic Ocean, Voyages in, i. 287; ii. 

 177 (see also Polar Sea) 



Are Frode (" Islendingabok"), i. 165- 

 6, 201, 253-4, 257, 258-60, 312, 313, 

 331. 332, 353. 354. 366, 367, 368; ii. 

 XI, 16, 26, 58, 60, 77-8, 82, 86, 91. 



Are Marsson, voyage to Hvitraman- 



397 



