272 THE GANNET 



anus 748 4° — of which the date would run from about 

 A.D. 1400, certainly not later.* From him I learn that there 

 are recorded in this curious list the names of two hundred 

 and three birds, which were known to the compiler of the 

 so-called okend heiti,-)- and among these names J we have 



Orimseyl. 



Arctic Circle. 



Eldtyl 



Suhcsher I ,; q 



Vestmann Islands 



sv<^rr, storkr, and svla {i.e., siila), which last is the name 

 of the bird which now goes under the designation of 



* Edited in the Arnamagnean edition of Snorris' "Edda," II., pp. 397- 

 494. 



\ i.e., plain appellatives for a great variety of animals and inanimate 

 objects, but apparently not all necessarily inhabitants of Iceland. 



+ " Fuglaheiti," p. 489. 



