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First edition of this account of a visit to Iceland by the clergyman, collector of folk songs and hymn writer Baring-Gould (1834-1924), undertaken for ‘examining scenes famous in Saga, and filling a portfolio with water-colour sketches’ (Preface).

As well as providing an account of his travels, the text relates numerous sagas, and includes discussion of Icelandic food, endearments, music, slang, poetry, female dress, and manuscripts, while the appendices cover the island’s ornithology and plant life. The work ends with ‘a few hints to the traveller’ e.g. ‘Extraordinary precautions must be taken to preserve thermometers from being shivered to atoms. Of ten which a friend of mine took to the Geysir wrapped in wool, seven were broken in two days’ (p. 398).

Baring-Gould is perhaps best known for his hymn ‘Onward, Christian Soldiers’.

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