Eam Igitur Ad Rem Nihil Poterit Contingere Optatius, Vestra, Clementissime Princeps Sereniss.

Maiestate:

Et enim nos ei, qui vitam & fortunas nostras in suam potestatem & tutelam accepit, ei inquam, nomen quoque gentis nostra innocenter contaminatum, cura vt sit, supplices rogamus.

Imo vero, Rex clementiss. non solum ad hanc rem, S. Maiestatis V. clemens implorare auxilium necessum habemus; Sed ad multa quoque alia, qua in nostra patria desiderantur, aut qua alioqui ad huius vtilitatem & salutem communem spectant: quaque non per me, sed per summorum nostra gentis viroram libellos supplices hoc tempore exponuntur, aut certe breui exponentur. Nihil enim dubitamus quin S. V. Maiestas, Christianissimorum maiorum exemplo, etiam nostram patriam, inter reliquas imperij sui Insulas, sua cura & protectione regia dignari velit. Nam qua nostra est ad S. Maiestatem V. confugiendi necessitas, ea est S. Maiestatis V. in nobis subleuandis, curandis & protegendis, gloria: Et ob nutritam extremi fere orbis Arctoi ecclesiam, in remotissimis M. V. imperij finibus, qua tranquillitatem & tuta singulari Dei beneficio halcyonia habet, pramium, ac reposita in coelis immarcessibilis vita aterna corona.

Caterum cum illa huius loci non sint, id quod mei est propositi subiungo: & a S. Maiestate V. ea, qua par est, amimi submissione peto, vt huic mea opella & studio in patriam collato, fauere, & patroni benigni esse loco, clementer dignetur. Quod superest, Sereniss. Princeps, Dom. clementissime, Maiestatem V. sapientia & prudentia, omniumque adeo virtutnm heroicarum indies incrementa sumentem, ad summum imperij fastigium, summas ille regnorum, omniumque adeo rerum humanaram dispensator, Deos opt. max. euehat: Euectam, omni rerum foelicissimo successu continue beet: Beatamque hoc modo, vt summum horum regnorum ornamentum, columen, praesidium, Ecclesia clypeum & munimen, quam diutissime conseruet: Ac tandem in altera vita, in solido regni coelestis gaudio, cum pracipuis ecclesia Dei nutritijs, syderis instar, illustrem fulgere faciat. Faxit etiam idem Pater clementis. vt hac vota, quanto sapius, in amplissimorum Maiestatis V. regnorum & Insularem quouis angulo, quotidie repetuntur ac ingeminantur, tanto rata magis & certiora, maneant.

Haffnia 1593. Mense Mart.

S. M. V. humiliter subiectus:

Aragrimos Ionas Islandus.

The same in English.

A briefe commentarie of Island: wherein the errors of such as haue written concerning this Island, are detected, and the slanders, and reproches of certaine strangers, which they haue vsed ouer-boldly against the people of Island are confuted.

By Arngrimus Ionas, of Island.

To the most mighty Prince and Lord, Lord Christian the 4. [Footnote: Christian IV. was the last elective king of Denmark and Norway. Frederick III. in 1665 changed the constituion to an hereditary monarchy, vested in his own family.] of Denmarke, Norway, and of the Vandals and Gothes, King elect: of Sleswic, Holste, Stormar, and Dithmarse Duke: Earle of Oldenburg, and Delmenhorst: His most gratious Lord.

That heroical attempt of Anchurus, sonne of King Midas (most gratious prince) and that pietie towards his countrey in maner peerelesse, deserueth highly to be renowmed in histories: in that freely and couragiously he offered his owne person, for the stopping vp of an huge gulfe of earth, about Celoena, a towne in Phrigia, which daily swallowed multitudes of men and whatsoeuer else came neere vnto it.

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