26 THE GANNET 



shortened from sula hin=" Gannet the " : because Icelandic 

 puts the definite article after its substantive, as in Danish 

 and Swedish. 



Spelling of " Solan.'' — In the sixteenth and seventeenth 

 centuries everyone was free to follow his own fancy in 

 spelling, which accounts for there being no less than fifteen 

 variants of Solan. : — 



Solan. 



Soland (Lowland Scotch). 



Solande (Bishop Leslie). 



Solend (Gesner, 1555). 



Solund (Grew, 1681 ; Wesley, 1772). 



Solane (Act of Parliament, 1592). 



Solen (Blaeu, 1662). 



Solent. 



Sollem. 



Solem l(Bj.gj.gtoj^^ ^gg^^ 

 Solemne J 



Sollen (Lauderdale Accounts). 

 Solayne (Monipennie, 1597). 

 Sule. 

 Sulan. 



Sullen (Earl of Aberdeen's Accounts, 1682 : Hist. 

 MSS., Com. v., 610). 

 The second spelling — that of " Soland," which is Lowland 



