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Pyrate, who going towards the Farenflan Iflands, was caft by Tcmpeft upon the 

 Shore of Eaft-lfeland, near the Mountain fyidarfial • and as he departed from the 

 Coaft, perceiving the tops of the higheft Mountains cover'd with a very deep 

 Snow, call'd thelfland Sntlandia, that is, Snowy Countrey. 



"Upon the fame of Naddocus's Difcovery, one Gardarus, the Son of SuaVarus, £ 

 Swede j was defirous to make a Voyage thither, and arriving near the Eaftern Shore, 

 Winter'd in the Bay of Skialfanda^oxNorth*Ifland, in the Year of our Lord 864. and 

 call'd the Haven Hufcawick, from the Houfes or Wintering-places built there, as the 

 next Haven to it was call'd Nartarawick, from Natrare, an eminent Mariner in this 

 Expedition. Gardarus returning home about the beginning of the Spring, call'd 

 the Countrey from his own Name Gardarjholm. 

 jFWsVoy- The next that follow'd his Example, was one Flocco, a famous Pyrate, whofe 

 Lme puce. Daughter Geirbilda being drown'd upon the Coaft of Scbetland (anciently Hietland,) 

 gave the Name of Geirbildarwata to the Sea thereabouts : Not having the ufe of the 

 Mariners Compafs, he made ufe of Ravens for the fleering of his Courfe, and ha* 

 ving fent forth two without fuccefs, by the guidance of chd third he had fight of 

 the Eaftern fide of the Ifland y and Steering Southward, he found a very wide Bay, 

 between the Promontories Q{e?ikanes and Snrfefnefs ; which Bay, from Faxa a Scot* 

 tifk Mariner that accompany'd him, he nam'd Faxaos, that is, The Mouth of Faxa, 

 though from its many Havens it came afterwards to be term'd Hafnafiordur. 

 Sailing along the Weft fide of the Ifland, he entred the Bay Bredafiord , and 

 took up his Quarters at Watnesfiordur, a Haven in the Province (Bardojiraund (for by 

 thefe Names thefe Places came afterwards to be known : )' Having ftay'd here two 

 Winters, he return'd back into Norway, and is faid to have been the firft that gave 

 this Countrey the Name of Ifeland, from the great quantities of Ice which fill'd 

 the Seas thereabouts, he alfogavc it the Name of Gtffnaflock, from the Ravens 

 which ferv'd him in ftead of a Compafs. 

 a Plantation fta laft and mod confiderable Adventurer was Ingulf us, the Son of On;, Duke 

 ty*«g"tph«s f Fyrdafilace in Norway, who, together with his Coufin Hiorleifus, that Marry a his 

 Sifter Helca, being adjudged to Banifliment by Halften (to the Award of whofe 

 Judgment they had fubmitted themfelves) upon the flaughter of his two Brethren, 

 Holmjlm and Herften, (thefe three Brethren were the Sons of Jtlas, one of the prime 

 N oblemen of Uprlpay) in a Quarrel, wherein Halften was chofen Umpire ; and al- 

 fo detefting the Tyranny oiHaraldus fulcbricomus, King of Norway, went over Gon- 

 faloniere, or chief Leader of a great Colony of People, whom he rais'd for the fetling 

 of a Plantation in fome foreign Countrey : Accompany'd with his Coufin fHor- 

 leifns, he took Shipping for Ifeland in the Year of our Lord 854. having been over 

 to vifit it about four years before •, he Landed at a Promontory on the South 

 Shore, which from him took the Name of Ingulfbolde, and zt^eicbarwick fetled his 

 Habitation, while Hiorleifus feated himfelf at the Promontory by him call'd Hior* 

 le'tfbolda, where he built two very large Houfes, each being about a hundred and 

 thirty Foot long • then he fet himfelf to Manure and Till the Ground, employing 

 in that Work ten Slaves, whom he brought with him for that purpofe out of Tfyr* 

 "way ; but it was not long ere they traiteroufly fet upon him and flew him by an 

 Ambufcade which they had laid for him $ after which they betook themfelves to 

 certain little Ifles, which were nam'd Weftmafyar, where before they had well nett- 

 led themfelves, the whole Race of them were rooted out by Ingulf bus, in revenge 

 of his Kinfman's Death. After this the Ifland grew daily more and more populous 

 by the coming over of new Families from Norway ; fo that at this day it is a Place 

 not the lcaft confiderable belonging to the Kings of Denmark* 



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