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INDEX 



Mermaid, 22, 136, 137. 

 Merman, 22, 135, 136. 

 Meyer, Kuno, 25, 109 note, 116 



note, 117 note. 

 Military art and engines, 11, 32, 



62, 63, 211-226. 

 Mineral springs in Iceland, 21, 



134, 135. 



Mines in warfare, 225. 

 Minorities, 35, 60, 197, 203 note. 

 " Mirrors of Princes," 7 note. 

 Missiles used in warfare, 224, 



225. 

 Monsters, 101, 105, 110, 115, 



125, 135-137. 

 Moon, The, and its influence on 



the ocean, 92-94, 300. 

 Mordecai, Hebrew magnate at 



the Persian court, 238-240, 



245. 



More, Norwegian shire, 104. 

 Moses, 51, 52, 280, 281, 283, 285 



-287, 290, 317, 318, 358, 361. 

 Munch, Peter Andreas, Nor- 

 wegian historian, 68. 

 Minister, 107 note. 



NAMDALEN, district in Norway, 

 9 note, 59, 60. 



Nansen, Fridtjof, 20, 21. 



Narwhal, 122, 123. 



Nathan, Hebrew prophet, 322, 

 324, 328, 344, 345, 347. 



Natural History of the Elder 

 Pliny, 18. 



Navigation, Rules and informa- 

 tion relating to, 83-85, 90, 

 100, 156-162. 



Nero, 362. 



Nibelungs, Tales of the, 3. 

 Nicholas Petersson, Norwegian 



bishop, 46. 



Nicholas Saemundarson, Nor- 

 wegian abbot, 28 note. 

 Nidaros, 9 note, 36, 48; see 



Trondhjem. 

 Night and day, Changes of, 94, 



98, 104. 

 Nineveh, 287. 

 Nob, city in Israel, 331, 332, 347, 



352, 362, 365. 

 Nordland, northern Norway, 98 



note. 

 Northern lights, 18, 19, 101, 146, 



149-152. 

 Norway, Colonies of, 4; 



literature of, in the middle 



ages, 4-6; 



marvels of, 18, 19, 21, 99-101, 



103-105; 



trade of, 29; 



factional warfare in, 35, 52; 



mention of, 28, 59, 65, 68, 



138 note. 



OCCAM, William, medieval 



schoolman, 49. 

 Olaf, Norwegian saint and king, 



36. 



Ordeal, Harold Gilchrist's, 34. 

 " Ore marvel " in Iceland, 134. 

 Orkneys, 4. 

 Ostenta, ostensa, minutes of time, 



16, 20, 95. 



PARADISE, 252, 255, 261, 263. 

 Parmenides of Ela, 15 note. 

 Patrick, Saint, 110 note, 115. 



