Northern Europe - The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques And Discoveries Of The English Nation - Volume 1 - Collected By Richard Hakluyt
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Perpetuo ad Boream adharet.) Illud vero, Glaciem Insula perpetuo, vel vt
paulo post asserit Munsterus: Octo continuis mensibus adharere: neutrum
verum est. [Sidenote: Glacies Aprili aut Maio soluitur.] Nam vt plurimum in
mense Aprili aut Maio soluitur, & Occidentem versus propellitur, nec ante
Ianuarium aut Februarium sapissime etiam tardius redit. Quid? quod plurimos
annos numerare licet, quibus glaciem illam huius nationis immite flagellum,
ne viderit quidem Islandia: Quod etiam hoc anno 1592. compertum est. Vnde
constat quam vere a Frisio scriptum sit, nauigationem ad hanc insulam
tantum quadrimestrem patere, propter glaciem & frigora, quibus
intercludatur iter, Cum Anglica naues quotannis nunc in Martio, nunc in
Aprili, quadam in Maio, Germanorum & Danorum in Maio & Iunio, plarumque ad
nos redeant, & harum quadam non ante Augustum iterum hinc soluunt.
Superiore autem anno 1591. quadam nauis Germanica, cupro onusta, portum
Islandia Vopnafiord 14. dies circiter in Nouembri occupauit, quibus lapsis
inde foeliciter soluit Quare cum glacies Islandia, nec perpetuo, neque octo
mensibus adhareat, Munsterus & Frisius manifeste falluntur.
The same in English.
THE THIRD SECTION.
It is named of the ice which continually cleaueth vnto the North part
thereof. [Sidenote: Munsterus Saxo] Another writeth: From the West part
of Norway there lieth an Iland which is named of the ice, enuironed with
an huge sea, and being a countrey of ancient habitation, &c. Zieglerus.
This is Thyle [Footnote: Thule] whereof most of the ancient writers haue
made mention.
It is named of ice, &c. Island hath beene called by three names, one after
another.
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