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Title: Visit to Iceland
and the Scandinavian North

Author: Ida Pfeiffer

Release Date: May 7, 2007 [eBook #1894]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)

***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK VISIT TO ICELAND***

Transcribed from the 1853 Ingram, Cooke, and Co. edition by David Price,
email ccx074@pglaf.org; second proof by Mike Ruffell.

VISIT TO ICELAND
AND THE
SCANDINAVIAN NORTH

TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN OF
MADAME IDA PFEIFFER.

WITH
Numerous Explanatory Notes
AND
EIGHT TINTED ENGRAVINGS.

TO WHICH ARE ADDED
AN ESSAY ON ICELANDIC POETRY,
FROM THE FRENCH OF M. BERGMANN;
A TRANSLATION OF THE ICELANDIC POEM THE VOLUSPA;
AND A BRIEF SKETCH OF ICELANDIC HISTORY.

Second Edition.

LONDON:
INGRAM, COOKE, AND CO.
1853

[Picture: Pictorial title page]

ADVERTISEMENT TO THE FIRST EDITION

The success which attended the publication in this Series of Illustrated
Works of _A Woman's Journey round the World_, has induced the publication
of the present volume on a country so little known as Iceland, and about
which so little recent information exists.

The translation has been carefully made, expressly for this Series, from
the original work published at Vienna; and the Editor has added a great
many notes, wherever they seemed necessary to elucidate the text.

In addition to the matter which appeared in the original work, the
present volume contains a translation of a valuable Essay on Icelandic
poetry, by M. Bergmann; a translation of an Icelandic poem, the
'Voluspa;' a brief sketch of Icelandic History; and a translation of
Schiller's ballad, 'The Diver,' which is prominently alluded to by Madame
Pfeiffer in her