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of the thirteenth, or beginning of the fourteenth century. 

 The author calls himfelf one of the firft in rank at the king 

 of Norway's court, and informs us that he lived in Helgeland, 

 in the diocefe of Tronheim. This book is written in the 

 manner of a dialogue betwixt a father and fbn ? containing, 

 befides many good rules, both political and civil, feveral obfer* 

 vations in natural philofophy, relating to the Northern 

 countries ; but not fo much of Norway in particular, as of 

 Ireland, Iceland, and Greenland. 



I have nothing farther to obferve ; . but fhall conclude with 

 this ardent wifh, ' That the eyes of the Lord, which behold 

 c all the nations upon earth, may always look favourably upon 



< this country and people, both, in all fpiritual and temporal 



< affairs :' u of him, and through him, and to him are all things; 

 " To him be all honour and glory for evermore." Amen ! 



Bergen, April 



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