Nowe, If They Addresse Themselues To Write, Howsoeuer My Fame Shalbe Obscured, Yet Wil I Comfort My Selfe With Their Excellencie, Who Are Like To Impaire My Credite:

For albeit a man ought to haue speciall regard of his name and fame, yet he is to haue more of his Countrey, whose dignitie being safe and sound, we also must needes esteeme our selues to be in safetie.

Written at Holen Hialtedale in Island, the yeere of our Lord 1592. the 17. of the Kalends of May.

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A letter written by the graue and learned Gudbrandus Thorlacius Bishop of Holen in Island, concerning the ancient state of Island and Gronland, &c.

Reuerendissimo viro, eruditione et virtute conspicuo, D. Hugoni Branham, Ecclesia Hareuicensis in Anglia pastori vigilantissimo, fratri et symmysta obseruando.

Mirabar equidem (vt conijcis, reuerende domine pastor) primo literarum tuarum intuitu, ignotum me, ab ignoto, scriptis salutari. Caterum, cum vlterius progrederer, comperi me, si non aliter, certe nomine tenus, tibi (qua tua est humanitas) innotuisse: Simulque quod te nominis Islandorum studiosum experirer, ex animo gauisus sum. Vnde etiam faciam, vt tua pietas, tuumque nomen, de Euangelio Iesu Christi nobis congratulantis, deque gente nostra tam benigne tamque honorifice sentientis, et scribentis apud nos ignotum esse desinat.

[Sidenote: Commentarius breuis de Islandia: per Arngrimum Ionam Islandum editus, 1593.] Quod vero ad antiquitatis monimenta attinet, qua hic extare creduntur, nihil sane est (prater illa, quorum in Commentario isto de Islandia, quem vidisse te scribis, fit mentio) de hac nostra insula lectu scriptuua dignum, quod cum humanitate tua communicem.

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