Word: grettir
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Dates: during 1925-1925
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...Liverpool, the steamer Iceland sailed out of the Mersey bearing Grettir Algarsson of Victoria, B. C, the rash young man who planned to fly over the North Pole in a small dirigible and only abandoned the plan when his air-ship's construction was delayed. The Iceland was bound for Gilles Land (east of Spitsbergen) where Mr. Algarsson proposed to do geological surveying. He will then attempt to go (by boat, sled and foot) "further north than any expedition this year," not excluding Amundsen's and MacMillan...
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