Transcriber’s Note: Obvious printer’s errors have been corrected. Discrepanciesin spelling and hyphenation have generally been left as is,unless there was an overwhelming majority for one option, in which case anerror was assumed and rectified.
The map is clickable for a larger version (if the device you’re reading thison supports that) but unfortunately, some of the place names on it got lost downthe fold.
MAP OF ICELAND
AFTER ÞORVALDAR THORODDSEN
1900
Mrs. Russell in the Festal Costume of Iceland.
The Author in the Full Dress of the Faroese.
ICELAND
HORSEBACK TOURS IN SAGA LAND
W. S. C. RUSSELL
Illustrated from Photographs
By the Author
BOSTON: RICHARD G. BADGER
TORONTO: THE COPP CLARK CO., Limited
Copyright, 1914, by Richard G. Badger
All Rights Reserved
The Gorham Press, Boston, U. S. A.
TO MY WIFE
GRACE
WHO TWICE COURAGEOUSLY ACCOMPANIED ME
OVER ICELANDIC TRAILS
AND TWICE
DISPLAYED THE GREATER COURAGE
REMAINING AT HOME
ALONE
THIS SIMPLE RECORD OF OUR WANDERINGS
AFFECTIONATELY
I
DEDICATE
FOREWORD
This Foreword, were it not for the tyrant Custom,might as well be omitted, since a preface is seldomread. Boldly I make my first appearance before thecritical public with no excuses to offer and no apologyto the reader for adding another volume to the longlist of travel books in the English tongue. But I havereasons why I have ventured into print.
First,—Iceland has a fascination for all who know it.Its history, its ancient and modern literature, its legendsand folklore, the people with their customs of a thousandyears unchanged, the magnificence and grandeurof its scenery, its bird and plant life, its unexcelledopportunities for the student of geology,—all theseand many more, are reasons why all the English speakingpeople should know something of this ancientbranch of the Gothic line from which time and circumstancehave separated the Angle and the Saxon