INDEX 



its value as a historical document, 

 ii. 62 



Ericson, Leif (see Leif Ericson) 



Eric Upsi, bishop of Greenland, ii. 

 29-31 



Eridanus, river, i. 31, 32, 34, 42 



Eruli, i. 21, 94, 136, 137-8, i39-49> I53. 

 235. 245 



Erythea, i. 9 



Erythraean Sea, i. 10 



Eskimo, i. 19, 51, 150, 212, 215, 216, 

 223, 231-2, 260, 298, 306, 307, 308, 

 309, 310, 368; ii. 10, 12, 16, 17, 19; 

 66-94, 102-6, 107, 111-2, 113-6, 333. 

 366-7; fairy-tales and legends of, ii. 

 8, 105, 115; ball-game among, ii. 

 40-1; distribution of, ii. 66-74; racial 

 characteristics of, ii. 67-8; their cul- 

 ture, ii. 68-9, 91-2; Norse settlers 

 absorbed by, ii. 100, 102-105, 106, 

 107-11, 117; unwarlike nature of, ii. 

 114, 115-6 



Esthonians (^stii, Osti), Esthonia, 

 i. 69, 72, 104, 109, 131, 167, 169, 170, 

 181, 186; ii. 205 



" Estotiland," fictitious northern 

 country, ii. 131 



Eudoxus, i. 46 



" Eyrbyggja-saga," i. 313, 376; ii. 42, 

 46, 48, 50 



Fabricius, A., ii. 55 



Fabyan, Robert, Chronicle (quoted 

 by Hakluyt), ii. 303, 324, 326, 333 



Fadhlan, Ibn, ii. 143 



Fairies, Names for, i. 372-3 



Fairy-lands, Irish, i. 357, 370-1, 379; 

 ii. 60; Norwegian, i. 369-70, 378; ii. 

 60, 213; laudatory names for, i. 374; 

 characteristics of, i. 375-9; ii. 213-4 



Faqih, Ibn al-, ii. 197 



Faroes, The, i. 254, 255, 257, 316, 324, 

 362; ii. 51, 229, 262; discovered by 

 the Irish, i. 162-4, 233; Irish monks 

 expelled from, i. 252, 253; early Cel- 

 tic population in, i. 164, 253 



Farewell, Cape, i. 261, 267, 280, 282, 

 284, 288, 291, 295, 307, 316; ii. 73 



Felix, The monk, in mediaeval legend, 

 i. 381 



Fenni (Finns), i. 109, 112, 113, 114, 

 120, 149, 203 



Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain, let- 

 ter from, ii. 300 



Fernald, M. L,, ii. 3, 5-6 



Fernandez, Joao (called " Lavora- 

 dor"), ii. 331-2, 356; letters patent 

 to (1499). "• 346, 356; probably 

 sighted Greenland (1500), ii. 356, 

 357, 375; took part in Bristol expe- 

 dition (1501), ii. 331, 356, 357; 

 Greenland (Labrador) named after 

 him, ii. 358 



Filastre, Cardinal, ii. 249-50, 278 



Finland (see Kvaenland), i. 206, 209, 

 210, 214; the name confused with 

 Vinland, i. 198, 382; ii. 31, 191; and 

 with Finmark, i. 382; ii. 191, 205; 

 in mediaeval cartography, ii. 224 



Finmark, i. 61, 173, 175, i77» 191, 198, 

 204, 210, 213, 220, 222, 225; ii. 86, 

 141, 163, 164, 172, 178, 179, 205, 211, 

 237; the name confused with Fin- 

 land, i. 382; ii. 32, 191, 205; in me- 

 diaeval cartography, ii. 221 



" Finn," The name, i. 198, 205-7, 210 



" Finnaithae " (Finnedi, Finvedi) (see 

 Finns), i. 135, 137, 189, 198, 203, 

 204, 206, 382 



Finn, MacCumaill, i. 363; ii. 45 



Finns, i. 109, 112, 113, 114, 120, 135, 

 136, 137. 149, 171, 173-8, 189, 198, 

 203-32, 382; ii. 68, 143; Horned 

 Finns, ii. 167 



"Finns," in southern Scandinavia, i. 

 103, 203, 205, 206-11; ii. 159 



Finn's booths (" FinnsbuSir "), in 

 Greenland, i. 283, 296, 305 



" Finnur hinn FriSi," Faroese lay of, 



ii. 33-4 

 Fischer, J., ii. 33, 121, 229, 249, 276, 



277, 278, 279, 281 

 Fischer, M. P., ii. 161 

 Fischer, Theobald, ii. 216, 220, 230, 234 

 Fishing Lapps, i. 204, 205, 207, 218, 



221, 223-32 

 " Flateyjarbok," i. 254, 283, 313, 314, 



317, 318, 324, 329, 331, 334, 338, 340, 



343, 344, 359, 360; ii. 4, I4, ^5, 18, 



21, 22, 23, 25, 59, 61 



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