_Railway_:—I have seen several paragraphs going the rounds of the American press relative to a railroad in Iceland. I had a chance to ride on this railroad in 1913. It is less than two miles in length. It is merely an improvised affair to transport rocks from the quarry to the two great breakwaters that are being built to protect the harbor of _Reykjavik_. There is some discussion in the _Althing_, (winter of 1914,) about the construction of a railway from _Reykjavik_ into the rich grazing land near _Eyrarbakki_. At the present writing nothing definite has been done. It seems that it would be unwise to employ steam and ship the coal from Scotland, when an electric road can be made much more cheaply and there is such an abundance of water power for electricity. INDEX A Aasberg, 35 Aberdeen, 35 Aegean, 32 _Áhver_, 296 _Akureyri_, 70, 203, 204, 207, 208, 215, 243, 245, 282 Alexander, 198 Alfred, 18 Algeria, 294 Algiers, 50, 51, 53 _Almannagjá_, 87, 91, 93, 94, 98 Alphonse of Castile, 294 _Althing_, 25, 64 America, 23, 34, 48, 61, 80, 114, 115, 138, 164, 168, 192, 212, 233, 240 Arabs, 215 Arbo, 65 Arctic Club, 151, 233 Ari, the Wise, 28 Arge, Peter, 39, 40, 46 _Ármannsfell_, 88, 89, 93 _Arnavatn_, 257, 276 Arrhenius, 238 _Ask_, 184, 188 _Askja_, 198, 285 Auth, 20 B Bache, 65 Baedeker, 65 _Baegisá_, 247 _Baegisádalr_, 247 Bagge, 51 Baldar, 298 Baltic, 62 Barbary, 29, 50 _Barnafoss_, 288, 289 Baðstofa, 141 Belgium, 71 Benidiktsson, V., 198 Bergman, 238 Bergthora, 207 Berlin, 203, 237 _Berufjörðr_, 51, 187 Berzelius, 238 Bibliography, 29, 30 _Bihólsfjall_, 194 _Biskuptúngur_, 121 Bjarnafell, 103 Björnsson, G., 63 _Blandá_, 259 _Blesi_, 110, 113 _Bolstaðarhlið_, 258 Borg, 252, 291, 293 Boston, 63 _Botnia_, 185, 200, 202, 204, 237 Brattleboro, Vt., 136 _Breiðifjörðr_, 20 British Isles, 31 _Brúará_, 102 Bruges, 275 Brunnar, 288 Brussels, 65 Bryant-Melville Cask, 198 _Burnt Njal_, 22, 25, 28, 48, 89, 93-95, 137, 154, 158, 207 Burton, Capt., 153 Byzantium, 23 C Caine, Hall, 83, 92 Cathedral, 65 _Ceres_, 180, 181 Cicero, 32 Coffee, 106 Connecticut, 275 Constantinople, 31, 294 Copenhagen, 28, 34, 67-69, 163, 180 Creameries, 158 D Danes, 51, 106, 163, 244 Dasent, 22, 28 Denmark, 14, 28, 29, 38, 39, 41, 64, 68, 80, 89, 115, 127, 158, 172, 188, 192, 204, 240 _Dettifoss_, 119, 171, 213, 235 Dickens, 267 Dicuilus, 20 _Djúpá_, 209, 213 Dogs, 236 _Drangey_, 257, 258, 260 Driftwood Bay, 198 Dublin, 20 Dufferin, Lord, 103 E Eastfirthers, 25 Edinburgh, 63, 136 Einarr, 262 _Eiðisvik_, 196 Eldborg, 172, 175 _Elliðaár_, 78 Emerson, 66 _Engey_, 179, 180 England, 17, 20, 28, 29, 41, 50, 64, 71, 80, 85, 91, 158, 159, 163 Ere-Dwellers, 27 Eric, 14