Word: ingolf
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Dates: during 1891-1891
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Harvard Hall was crowded even to standing room last Wednesday evening when Mr. Charles S. Smith gave the first lecture in his course on Icelandic Saga. Mr. Smith treated of Iceland from Ingolf's Settlement to its subjection to Norway...
...first settlement was made by Ingolf, who carried with him the pillars of his sect and threw them into the water, declaring that there he should settle his colony. For the next sixty years many colonies were sent out. Certain numbers of the colonists came from Norway, but a good part were from Ireland and Scotland. The first settlers had no boundaries to their lands, but later a man could have as much land as he could carry a fire about in a day, and a woman as much as she could lead a calf about. With a stronger tide...
...Harvard this year as a lecturer appointed by the Corporation and will deliver a series of five illustrated lectures - two in November, on the 25 and 27, and three in December, on the 2d, 3d, and 4th. The subject of this evening's lecture will be "Iceland, from Ingolf's Settlement to its subjection to Norway." The lecture this evening will be given Harvard 1, at 8 p. m., and will be open to the public...
Icelandic Saga. Iceland, from Ingolf's settlement to its subjection to Norway. Illustrated Lecture. Professor Charles Sprague Smith of New York. Harvard...
Icelandic Saga. Iceland, from Ingolf's settlement to its subjection to Norway. illustrated Lecture. Professor Charles Sprague Smith of New York. Harvard...