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sobrietie, and use to bestow all the time of their life 

 in the knowledge of other mens exploits, they supply 

 their want by their wit. For they esteeme it a pleasure 

 to know, and commit unto memory the famous acts 

 of other nations, reckoning it no lesse praiseworthy to 

 discourse of other mens vertues, then to practise their 

 owne. Whose treasuries replenished with the monuments 

 of historical matters, I more curiously searching into, 

 have compiled no smal part of this present worke by 

 following of their relation : neither despised I to have 

 those men for my judges, whom I knew to be skilfull 

 in so great knowledge of antiquitie. Thus farre Saxo. 

 Wherefore I thinke it not amisse to proceede in the 

 recitall of the Bishops of Island, that the order and 

 descent of them all, being so farre foorth as is possible, 

 diligently put together out of our yeerely records, may 

 make good that which we have all edged against Krantzius 

 concerning Isleif the first Bishop of Island. 



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