INDEX 



Bianco, Andrea, map of Europe 



(1436), ii. 267, 282 

 Bible, The, i. 125, 126, 153, 184, 338, 



358, 363; ii- 45. 46, 184, 185 

 Birds, used to find position at sea, i. 



250-1, 257, 318 

 Biruni, ii. igg, 200 

 Bishops of Greenland, i. 273, 283; ii. 



29, 30-1, 98-9, 106, 108, 113-4, 121, 



122, 134 



" Biskupa Sogur," i. 284; ii. 8 



Bjarmas (see also Beormas), ii. 135- 

 40, 167 



Bjarmeland (Northern Russia), i. 173- 

 5, 288; ii. 135-42, 154, 164, 165, 166, 

 168, 172, 237, 268; "Farther Bjarme- 

 land," ii. 165-6 



Bjarne Grimolfsson, Wineland voy- 

 ager, i. 319, 320, 326, 329, 330; ii. 20 



Bjarne Herjulfsson, traditional dis- 

 coverer of Wineland, i. 314, 317, 334; 

 ii. 21 



Bjarneyjar (Bear-islands), Greenland, 

 i. 301, 302, 304, 321, 322, 323, 335, 

 336 



Bjorn Breidvikingekjaempe, i. 360; ii. 

 49. 50, 53. 54. 56 



Bjorn Einarsson Jorsalafarer, ii. 82, 

 106, 112, 113 



Bjorn Jonsson of Skardsa (Annals of 

 Greenland), i. 263, 282-3, 288, 292, 

 295. 299, 301, 308, 309, 321, 377; ii. 

 35, 37. 82, 83, 239 



Bjorn Thorleifsson, shipwrecked in 

 Greenland, ii. 82 



Bjornbo, Dr. A. A., i. 200, 201, 202, 

 297; ii. 2, 31, 32, 116, 123, 127, 132, 

 147, 154, 193, 220, 221, 223, 224, 225, 

 226, 233, 234, 240, 249, 250, 253, 261, 

 262, 264, 273, 277, 278, 281, 283, 284, 

 287, 289, 332, 353, 368, 369, 370, 374, 

 375 



Bjornbo and Petersen, i. 226; ii. 85, 



123, 124, 127, 219, 232, 234, 249, 250, 

 252, 253, 254, 255, 256, 258, 262, 263, 

 267, 273, 275, 277, 377 



Blaserkr (Greenland), i. 267, 291-6 



Blom, O., ii. 8 



Boas, F., ii. 69, 70 



Boats of hides (coracles, etc.), in the 



CEstrjntnnides, L 38, 39; Scythians, 

 Saxons, etc., i. 154, 242; Greenland- 

 ers', i. 305; Irish, ii. 92; Skraelings', 

 in Wineland, i. 327; ii. 10, 19; in 

 Trondhjem cathedral, ii. 85, 89, 117, 

 269, 270; in Irish tales, i. 336; ii. 20; 

 in Newfoundland (?), iL 367; Es- 

 kimo, see Kayaks and Women's 

 Boats 



Bobe, Louis, ii. 126 



Borderie, A. de la, L 234 



Borgia mappamundi, ii. 284-5. 



Bornholm, i. 169, 180; ii. 204, 265 



Bothnia, Gulf of, i. 169, 187; ii. 

 269; in mediaeval cartography, ii. 

 219 



"Boti," i. 87 



Bran, Voyage of, I 198, 354, 356, 365, 

 370; ii. 56 



Brandan, Legend of, i. 281-2, 334, 337, 

 344. 345, 358-64, 366, 376; I 9, 10, 

 13. 18, 19, 43-5. 50, 51, 61, 64, 75, 151, 

 206, 214, 228-9, 234 



Brattalid, in Greenland, i. 268, 270, 

 271. 275, 317, 319, 320, 331 



Brauns, D., i. 377; ii. 56 



" Brazil," Isle of (Hy Breasail, 

 O'Brazil, etc.), i. 3, 357, 379; ii. 30, 

 228-30, 279, 294-5, 318; expeditions 

 to find, ii. 294-5, 301, 325 



Breda, O. J., ii. 31 



Brenner, O., i. 58 



Brinck (" Descriptio Loufodiae "), i. 

 378 



Bristol, trade with Iceland, ii. 119, 

 279, 293; Norwegians living at, ii. 

 119, 180; expeditions sent out from, 

 ii. 294-5, 298, 301, 304, 325, 326, 327, 

 330, 331 



Britain, i. 193, 234, 240, 241 ; visited by 

 Pytheas, i. 49, 50-3; Caesar on, i. 79- 

 80; Mela on, i. 97; Pliny on, ii. 106; 

 Ptolemy on, i. 117; in mediaeval car- 

 tography, ii. 220, 227 



Brittany, cromlechs in, i. 22; tin in, 

 i. 23, 26, 27, 29-31, 38-42 



Broch, Prof. Olaf, ii. 142, 175, 176 



Brogger, A. W., i. 14 



Bronlund, Jorgen, i. 2-3 



Bruun, D., i. 164, 270, 271, 274, 275 



399 



