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Viktor Rydberg's Investigations into Germanic Mythology Volume II  : Part 2: Germanic Mythology
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Easy Readings In Old Icelandic


Chapter 38


Iceland

        Í aldarfarsbók þeiri, er Beda prestr heilagr gørði, er getit eylands þess er Týli heitir, ok á bókum er sagt at liggi sex dœgra sigling í norðr frá Bretlandi: þar sagði hann eigi koma dag á vetr, ok eigi nótt á sumar, þá er dagr er sem lengstr. Til þess ætla vitrir menn þat haft, at Ísland sé Týli kallat, at þat er víða á landinu er sól skínn um nætr, þá er dagr er sem lengstr, enn þat er víða um daga er sól sér eigi, þá er nótt er sem lengst. Enn Beda prestr andaðisk dccxxxv árum (1) eftir holdgan dróttins várs, at því er ritat er, ok meirr enn hundraði ára fyrr enn Ísland bygðisk af Norðmönnum. En áðr Ísland bygðisk af Noregi, váru þar þeir menn, er Norðmenn kall Papa; þeir váru menn kristnir, ok hyggja menn at þeir hafi verit vestan um haf, því at fundusk eftir þeim bœkr írskar, bjöllur ok baglar, ok enn fleiri hlutir, þeir er þat mátti skilja at þeir váru Vestmenn; þat fansk í Papey austr ok í Papíli; er ok þess getit á bókum enskum, at í þann tíma var farit milli landanna.

aldar-fars-bók, f. treatise on chronology   holdgan, f. incarnation
hyggja, to consider
andaðisk, died (andask) írskr, Irish
bagli, m. crozier lengstr, longest (langr)
bjalla, f. bell Papar, m. pl. priests, Culdees
dróttinn, m. Lord ritat, written (rita)
dœgr, n. half-day (3) sigling, f. sailing
enskr, English (27) skilja, to understand
eyland, n. island skínn, shines (skína)
fansk, was found Vestmenn, m. pl. men from Britain
fundusk, were found ætla, to consider
getit, mentioned (31)
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fimmtán árum ens sjaunda hundraðs (=120 x 6 + 15).




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