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ii. 86, 141, 163, 164, 172, 178, 179, 205, 211, 237;
the name confused with Finland, i. 382; ii. 32, 191, 205; in mediæval cartography, ii. 221
"Finn," The name, i. 198, 205-7, 210
"Finnaithæ" (Finnédi, Finvedi) (_see_ Finns), i. 135, 137, 189, 198, 203, 204, 206, 382
Finn mac Cumhaill, i. 363; ii. 45
Finns, i. 109, 112, 113, 114, 120, 135, 136, 137, 149, 171, 173-8, 189, 198, 203-32, 382; ii. 68, 143; Horned Finns, ii. 167
"Finns," in southern Scandinavia, i. 103, 203, 205, 206-11; ii. 159
Finn's booths (_Finnsbuðir_), in Greenland, i. 283, 296, 305
"Finnur hinn Friði," Faroese lay of, ii. 33-4
Fisher, J., ii. 33, 121, 229, 249, 276, 277, 278, 279, 281
Fischer, M. P., ii. 161
Fischer, Theobald, ii. 216, 220, 230, 234
Fishing Lapps, i. 204, 205, 207, 218, 221, 223-32
_Flateyjarbók_, i. 254, 283, 313, 304, 317, 318, 324, 329, 331, 334, 338, 340, 343, 344, 359, 360; ii. 4, 14, 15, 18, 21, 22, 23, 25, 59, 61
Fletcher, Giles, i. 226
_Floamanna-Saga_, i. 280, 281; ii. 46, 81
Floating islands, Legends of, i. 375-7; ii. 213-4
Floki Vilgerdarson, sails to Iceland, i. 255, 257, 269
Florus, L. Annæus, i. 350
Forbiger, A., i. 58, 102
Forster, i. 179
Fortunate Isles (_Insulæ Fortunatæ_), i. 117, 198, 334, 345-53, 367, 370, 372, 373, 382-4; ii. 1-6, 24, 31, 42, 55, 59-61, 64, 191, 228, 280, 304
Fortunate Lake, Irish myth of, ii. 229-30
_Foster-Brothers' Saga_, i. 276, 320; ii. 9, 18
Frähn, C. M., ii. 143, 145
Franks Casket, The, i. 176
Freydis, daughter of Eric the Red, i. 320, 328, 332, 333; ii. 11, 51
Friesland, Frisians, i. 95, 153, 205
Friis, J. A., i. 372
Friis, Peder Claussön, i. 224, 227-9, 232, 369; ii. 153, 158, 178, 268
Frisian noblemen's polar expedition, i. 195-6, 200, 383; ii. 147-8
Frisius, Gemma, ii. 129, 132
Frisland, fabulous island south of Iceland, i. 377; ii. 131
Fritzner, ii. 9
Furðustrandir, i. 273, 312, 313, 322, 323, 324, 325, 326, 334, 336, 337, 339, 357; ii. 24, 36
Fyldeholm (island of drinking), i. 352
Gadir (Gadeira, Gades, Cadiz), i. 24, 27, 28, 30, 36, 37, 66, 79
Galvano, Antonio, ii. 336, 337, 338, 354, 364, 376
Gandvik (the White Sea), i. 218-9, 228; ii. 136-8, 164, 223, 237, 239
Gardar, discoverer of Iceland, i. 255-7, 263
Garðar, Greenland, i. 272, 273, 275, 311; ii. 106, 107, 108, 121, 122
"Gautigoth" (_see_ Goths), i. 135
_Gautrek's Saga_, i. 18-9
Geelmuyden, Prof. H., i. 52, 54, 311; ii. 23
Geijer, E. G., i. 60, 102, 111, 131, 205, 207
Gellir Thorkelsson, i. 366
Genoese mappamundi (1447 or 1457), ii. 278, 286, 287
Geminus of Rhodes, i. 43, 44, 53, 54, 57, 63, 64
_Geographia Universalis_, i. 382; ii. 32, 177, 188-91, 220, 227, 339
Gepidæ, i. 139, 142, 153
Gerfalcons, Island or land of, ii. 208, 227, 266, 289
Germania, i. 69, 71, 73, 87, 90, 95, 101, 108-14, 154, 169; Roman campaigns in, i. 81, 83, 85, 97
Germanicus, The younger, i. 83
Germanus, Nicolaus, ii. 251, 276-9, 288, 290, 373
Germany, coast of, in mediæval cartography, ii. 219, 257
_Gesta Francorum_, i. 234
Gilbert, Sir Humphrey, ii. 340
Gildas, i. 234, 364
Ginnungagap, i. 12, 84, 158; ii. 35, 150, 154, 239-41
Giraldus Cambrensis, i. 379; ii. 151, 220, 245
Gisle Oddsson's Annals, ii. 82, 100-2, 109
Gissur Einarsson, Bishop, i. 285
Gjessing, H., ii. 31
Glæsaria, island, i. 101, 106
Glastonbury, Legend of sow at, i. 378-9
"Gli," mythical island, i. 364
Globes, used by the Greeks, i. 78; introduced by Toscanelli, ii. 287; Behaim's, ii. 287-9; Laon globe, ii. 290; used by Columbus, ii. 287; and Cabot, ii. 304, 306
Gnomon, The, i. 11, 45-6
Godthaab, Greenland, i. 271, 304, 307, 321; ii. 73, 74
Goe, month of, i. 264, 265
Goeje, M. de, i. 344, 362; ii. 51, 194, 197, 198
Goes, Damiam de, ii. 354, 366, 376, 377
Gokstad ship, i. 246
Gomara, Francesco Lopez de, ii. 129, 130, 131, 336, 337, 354, 364
_Gongu-Rólv's kvæði_, i. 356
Göta river, i. 131; ii. 190, 205
Göter (Gauter), i. 120, 135, 141, 144, 147; ii. 190
Goths (Gytoni, Gythones, Getæ), i. 14, 21, 71, 120, 129, 130, 135, 137, 139, 145, 147, 153; ii. 143, 190
Gotland, i. 121, 180, 378; ii. 125, 237; in mediæval cartography, ii. 219, 221, 224, 233, 265
Gourmont, Hieronymus, map of Iceland, ii. 122-3, 127
Graah, Captain, i. 297; ii. 104
Grail, Legends of the, i. 382
Grampus, i. 50-1
Granii, i. 136
Grape Island (_Insula Uvarum_), i. 358, 361, 363, 365, 366
Greenland, i. 184, 192, 194, 197, 199, 200, 201, 215, 223, 252, 315-21, 322; ii. 1, 5, 12, 25, 36, 38, 40-2, 66-94, 95-134, 167, 169, 177, 244, 345, 366; Eskimo of, ii. 71-5; discovered and settled by Norwegians, i. 258-78; estimated population of settlements, i. 272; conditions of life in i. 274-8, 319; ii. 96-7; voyages along the coasts of, i. 279-311; glaciers (inland ice) of, i. 288-95, 301, 308; ii. 246-7; decline of Norse settlements in, ii. 90, 95-100; last voyage to (from Norway), ii. 117; last ship from, ii. 118; geographical ideas of, ii. 237-40, 246-8, 254-5, 259-62, 270-6, 278, 279, 280; east coast of, i. 271-2, 279-96, 308; ii. 168, 170, 171, 238; uninhabited parts (_ubygder_) of, i. 279-311, 320, 321; ii. 28, 166, 172; sixteenth-century discovery of, ii. 315, 332, 335, 352, 363, 364, 375; called Labrador, ii. 129, 132, 133, 315, 335, 353; in sixteenth-century maps, ii. 368-75
Gregory of Tours i. 234
"Greipar," in Greenland, i. 298, 299, 300-1, 304
_Grettis-saga_, i. 313, 367
Griffins, i. 19, 254; ii. 263
Grim Kamban, i. 253
Grimm, J., i. 18, 94, 95, 355, 372; ii. 45, 56
Grimm, W., i. 373
Grip, Carsten, letter to Christiern III., ii. 126-8
_Gripla_, i. 288; ii. 35-6, 237, 239, 241
Gröndal, B., i. 371, 375
_Grönlands historiske Mindesmærker_, i. 262, 263, 271, 281, 282, 283, 284, 285, 288, 292, 294, 295, 296, 297, 298, 299, 300, 301, 302, 304, 305, 311, 333, 359, 377; ii. 1, 9, 14, 17, 22, 25, 31, 35, 46, 79, 82, 86, 100, 102, 106, 108, 112, 113, 117, 119, 120, 125, 127, 172, 237, 278
_Grönlendinga-þáttr_ (_see_ Flateyjarbók)
Groth, Th., ii. 103
_Grottasongr_, i. 159
Gudleif' Gudlaugsson, story of his voyage, ii. 49-50, 53-4; compared with Leif Ericson, ii. 50-1
Gudmund Arason's Saga, i. 284
Gudmundsson, Jón, map by, ii. 34, 241
Gudmundsson, V., ii. 25
Gudrid, wife of Karlsevne, i. 318, 319, 320, 321, 329, 330, 333; ii. 14-5, 51
Guichot y Sierra, A., i. 376
Gulathings Law, ii. 140
Gulf Stream, i. 251; ii. 54
Gunnbjörnskerries, i. 256, 261-4, 267, 280; ii. 276
Gunnbjörn Ulfsson, i. 256, 261-4, 267, 280, 296
Gustafson, Prof. G., i. 237, 240
Gutæ, i. 120
_Guta-saga_, i. 378
Gutones (_see_ Goths), i. 70, 71, 72, 72, 93
Gytoni (_see_ Goths), i. 71
Hægstad, Prof. M., ii. 242
Hægstad and Torp (_Gamal-norsk Ordbog_), ii. 9
Hæmodæ ("Acmodæ," "Hæcmodæ"), i. 90, 106
"Hafsbotn" (the Polar Sea), i. 283, 303; ii. 137, 151, 165, 166, 167, 168, 171, 172, 237, 240
Hakluyt. R., i. 226; ii. 129, 132, 152, 261, 319, 321, 326, 333
Håkon Håkonsson's Saga, i. 299; ii. 139, 141
_Halichoerus grypus_ (grey seal), i. 217; ii. 91, 155
Halli Geit, Tale of, ii. 239
Hallinger, i. 104, 247
Hallstatt, i. 24, 36
Hâlogaland (Hålogaland, Hâlogi, Halgoland, Halagland, Halogia, Helgeland), i. 61, 62, 64, 132, 135, 138, 175, 179, 194, 197, 200, 231, 247, 264, 381, 383; ii. 64, 137, 139, 140, 142, 165, 168, 172; in mediæval cartography, ii. 227, 236
Halsingia, or Alsingia, i. 104
Hamberg, Axel, ii. 69
Hammershaimb, V. U., i. 356, 375; ii. 33
Hamy, ii. 220, 223, 229, 230, 234
Hanno, i. 37, 88, 350; ii. 45
Hans (John), king of Denmark, ii. 125, 128
Hanseatic League, ii. 99, 119, 125, 179, 218
Hansen, Dr. A. M., i. 149, 192, 206, 207, 208, 218, 221, 222, 228, 229, 230, 236-7, 239
Harold Fairhair, i. 253-4, 255, 258
Harold Gråfeld, ii. 136, 153, 154
Harold Hardråde, i. 185, 195, 201, 283, 383; ii. 147, 199; his voyage in the Polar Sea, i. 195; ii. 148-54
Harpoons, i. 214-7, 277; ii. 145-6, 156-63
Harrisse, Henry, ii. 132, 230, 293, 294, 295, 296, 297, 300, 302, 303, 304, 305, 309, 314, 315, 319, 320, 326, 327, 329, 331, 332, 333, 334, 336, 341, 347, 348, 349, 353, 358, 359, 360, 365, 374
Harudes (Charydes, Charudes, Horder), i. 85, 118, 136, 143, 148, 246
_Hauksbók_, i. 188, 251, 256, 257, 261, 262, 264, 268, 286, 291, 293, 308, 309, 322, 327, 331, 333, 353, 367, 369; ii. 10, 11, 166, 169, 172, 216, 261
Hebrides (Ebudes, Hebudes), i. 57, 90, 106, 117, 123, 158, 159, 160, 161, 234, 273, 316; ii. 151, 200
Hecatæus of Abdera, i. 8, 9, 10, 15, 16, 98
Heffermehl, A. V., ii. 242
Heiberg, Prof. J., i. 219, 220
_Heimskringla_, i. 270, 313, 331; ii. 59, 137, 171, 239
Heiner, i. 138
Heinrich of Mainz, map by, ii. 185, 187
Helge Bograngsson, killed in Bjarmeland, ii. 139-40
Heligoland, i. 197
Helland, A., i. 226, 231, 369, 372, 373, 378, 381; ii. 46, 152, 177, 228
Helluland, i. 312, 313, 322, 323, 334, 336, 357; ii. 1, 23, 35-6, 61, 237
Helm, O., i. 14
Helsingland, Helsingers, i. 189; ii. 237
Henry V. of England, ii. 119
Henry VI. of England, ii. 119
Henry VII. of England, ii. 130, 298, 299, 302, 303, 322, 324, 326, 327, 331, 332, 333, 334, 337, 338, 340
Henry VIII. of England, ii. 319, 330, 334, 338, 341, 342, 343
Heraclitus, i. 12
"Herbrestr" (war-crash), ii. 8-9
Hereford map, i. 91, 92, 102, 154, 157, 190; ii. 186, 187
Hergt, G., i. 43, 51, 60, 65, 66, 67, 71, 72
Herla, mythical king of Britain, ii. 76
Hermiones, i. 91, 104
Hermits, in Irish legends, ii. 19, 43-6, 50
Herodotus, i. 9, 12, 20, 23, 24, 27, 31-2, 46, 76, 78, 81, 88, 114, 148, 155, 156, 161, 187
Hertzberg, Ebbe, ii. 38, 39, 40, 61, 93
Hesiod, i. 9, 11, 18, 42, 84, 348
Hesperides, i. 9, 161, 334, 345, 376; ii. 2, 61
Heyman, i. 342; ii. 8
Hielmqvist, Th., i. 381
Hieronymus, i. 151, 154
Higden, Ranulph (_Polychronicon_), i. 346, 382; ii. 31-2, 288-92, 220; his mappamundi, ii. 188, 189, 192
Hilleviones, i. 101, 104, 121
Himilco's voyage, i. 29, 36-41, 68, 83
Himinrað (Hunenrioth, &c.), mountain in Greenland, i. 302-4; ii. 108
Hipparchus, i. 44, 47, 52, 56, 57, 73, 77-8, 87, 116; ii. 197
Hippocrates, i. 13, 88
Hippopods, i. 91
Hirri, i. 101
_Historia Norwegiæ_, i. 204, 229, 252, 255, 256, 257, 298; ii. 1, 2, 17, 29, 61, 79, 87, 88, 135, 151, 167, 168, 172, 222, 227, 235, 239, 240, 280
Hjorleif, settles in Iceland with Ingolf, i. 166, 252, 254, 255
Hoegh, K., ii. 31
Hoffmann, W. J., ii. 39, 40
Hofmann, C., i. 59
Holand, H. R., ii. 31
Holberg, Ludvig, ii. 118
Holm, G. F., i. 271, 274
Holz, G., i. 85, 102
Homer, i. 8, 10-11, 13, 14, 25, 33, 77, 78, 196, 347, 348, 371; ii. 53, 54, 160
Homeyer, C. G., i. 214
Hönen, Ringerike, Runic stone from, ii. 27-9, 58
Honorius Augustodunensis, i. 375
Honorius, Julius, i. 123; ii. 183
Horace, i. 349, 350-1
Horaisan, Japanese fortunate isle, ii. 56-7, 213
Horder (_see_ Harudes), i. 85, 118, 136, 138, 143, 147, 209, 246
Horn, Georg, (_Ulysses peregrinans_), ii. 132, 133
Horses, Swedish, i. 135; in Greenland, i. 276
Hrabanus Maurus, i. 159, 167, 184
"Huldrefolk" (Norwegian fairies), i. 355, 356, 370-3, 381; ii. 12, 60
"Huldrelands" (_see_ Fairylands)
Humboldt, i. 363
Huns, i. 188
Hvarf point, in Greenland, i. 263, 267, 269, 279, 288, 290, 292, 294, 295, 303, 310, 315; ii. 169, 171, 261
Hvergelmer, i. 158, 159
Hvítramanna-land (the White Men's Land), i. 312, 313, 330, 353, 366, 368, 376; ii. 2, 19, 42-56, 60, 61, 92; called Great Ireland, i. 330, 353, 366; ii. 42, 48; Are Mársson's voyage to, i. 331-2, 353-4; ii. 42, 46, 50
Hvitserk glacier, in Greenland, i. 283, 286, 288, 291, 292, 294-5, 303;