There be seen neare unto Island huge whales.... It sometimes falleth
out that Mariners thinking these whales to be Islands, and casting
out upon their backs, are often in danger of drowning, etc.
BOOK II.
Introduction
SECTION 1.
Adalbert, Metropolitanate of Hamburg, saw the Islanders converted unto
Christianity.... At their humble request he appointed a certaine holy
man named Islief to be thsir first Bishop
Chronology of the Bishops of Schalholt
Chronology of the Bishops of Holen
SECTION 2.
They inhabit caves.... and have many houses built with the bones of
fishes, etc.
SECTION 3.
They and their cattell use all one house, etc.
SECTION 4.
The customs of the inhabitants
SECTION 5.
The King of Denmarke and Norway sendeth every year a Lieutenant into
the country
SECTION 6.
All things are common among them, except their wives
SECTION 7.
They make all one reckoning of their whelpes and of their children,
etc.
SECTION 8.
They honour their Bishop as their King, etc.
SECTION 9.
They live there for the most part upon fishes, etc.
SECTION 10.
The inhabitants do celebrate the acts of their ancestors.... with
songs, and they grave them in rocks.... There be divers found among
them that be minstrels, etc.
SECTION 11.
Joachim Leo and his slanders on Iceland,
SECTION 12.
Adulteries and Whoredoms arc not only public and common vices.... but
are not accounted by them for vices
SECTION 13.
The treachery of the inhabitants
SECTION 14.
The good wife of the house reacheth to every one a Chamber-pot.... at
Banquets.... Ten persons, men and women, lie together in one bed,
etc.,
SECTION 15.
The food of the inhabitants
SECTION 16.
The simple manners of the inhabitants, and their Commerce, etc.
45. A Letter written by Gudbrandus Thorlacius, Bishop of Holen in Island,
concerning the Ancient State of Island and Gronland,
Index
List of Plates and Maps
Table of Contents
END OF VOL. 1
End of The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation, v. 1, by Richard Hakluyt
