Visit to Iceland and the Scandinavian NorthPfeiffer, Ida
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Visit to Iceland and the Scandinavian North
Pfeiffer, Ida
Iceland -- Description and travel; Old Norse poetry -- History and criticism; Scandinavia -- Description and travel
_OEnothereae_. Epilobium latifolium (in clefts of the mountain at the
foot of Hecla). Epilobium alpinum (in Reiker valley, west of
Havenfiord).
_Rosaceae_. Rubus arcticus. Potentilla anserina. Potentilla
gronlandica (on rocks near Kallmanstunga and Kollismola). Alchemilla
montana. Sanguisorba officinalis. Geum rivale. Dryas octopela (near
Havenfiord).
_Papilionaceae_. Trifolium repens.
FOOTNOTES:
{1} In this Gutenberg eText only Madame Pfeiffer's work appears--DP.
{2} Madame Pfeiffer's first journey was to the Holy Land in 1842; and on
her return from Iceland she started in 1846 on a "Journey round the
World," from which she returned in the end of 1848. This adventurous
lady is now (1853) travelling among the islands of the Eastern
Archipelago.
{3} A florin is worth about 2_s._ 1_d._; sixty kreutzers go to a florin.
{4} At Kuttenberg the first silver groschens were coined, in the year
1300. The silver mines are now exhausted, though other mines, of copper,
zinc, &c. are wrought in the neighbourhood. The population is only half
of what it once was. --ED.
{5} The expression of Madame Pfeiffer's about Frederick "paying his
score to the Austrians," is somewhat vague. The facts are these. In
1757 Frederick the Great of Prussia invaded Bohemia, and laid siege to
Prague. Before this city an Austrian army lay, who were attacked with
great impetuosity by Frederick, and completely defeated. But the town
was defended with great valour; and during the time thus gained the
Austrian general Daun raised fresh troops, with which he took the field
at Collin. Here he was attacked by Frederick, who was routed, and all
his baggage and cannon captured. This loss was "paying his score;" and
the defeat was so complete, that the great monarch sat down by the side
of a fountain, and tracing figures in the sand, was lost for a long time
in meditation on the means to be adopted to retrieve his fortune.
{6} I mention this little incident to warn the traveller against parting
with his effects.
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