Transcribed from the 1853 Ingram, Cooke, and Co. edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org; second proof by Mike Ruffell. VISIT TO ICELAND AND THE SCANDINAVIAN NORTH TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN OF MADAME IDA PFEIFFER. WITH Numerous Explanatory Notes AND EIGHT TINTED ENGRAVINGS. TO WHICH ARE ADDED AN ESSAY ON ICELANDIC POETRY, FROM THE FRENCH OF M. BERGMANN; A TRANSLATION OF THE ICELANDIC POEM THE VOLUSPA; AND A BRIEF SKETCH OF ICELANDIC HISTORY. Second Edition. LONDON: INGRAM, COOKE, AND CO. 1853 [Picture: Pictorial title page] ADVERTISEMENT TO THE FIRST EDITION The success which attended the publication in this Series of Illustrated Works of _A Woman's Journey round the World_, has induced the publication of the present volume on a country so little known as Iceland, and about which so little recent information exists. The translation has been carefully made, expressly for this Series, from the original work published at Vienna; and the Editor has added a great many notes, wherever they seemed necessary to elucidate the text. In addition to the matter which appeared in the original work, the present volume contains a translation of a valuable Essay on Icelandic poetry, by M. Bergmann; a translation of an Icelandic poem, the 'Voluspa;' a brief sketch of Icelandic History; and a translation of Schiller's ballad, 'The Diver,' which is prominently alluded to by Madame Pfeiffer in her description of the Geysers. {1} The Illustrations have been printed in tints, so as to make the work uniform with the _Journey round the World_. London, August 1, 1852. AUTHOR'S PREFACE "Another journey--a journey, moreover, in regions which every one would rather avoid than seek. This woman only undertakes these journeys to attract attention." "The first journey, for a woman ALONE, was certainly rather a bold proceeding. Yet in that instance she might still have been excused. Religious motives may perhaps have actuated her; and when this is the case, people often go through incredible things. At present, however, we can see no just reason which could excuse an undertaking of this description."