After what I have related, there are no
traces of any voyage to Iceland, till In-
golfr and his friendLeifrundertook one
ill 874. They found on their arrival that
the country had not been mifrepreient-
ed ; and reiblved, after having fpent the
winter on the iiland, to fettle there
entirely for the future. Ingolfr returned
to Norway, to provide whatever
might be neceifary to accompliili a
new and comfortable eilabliftiment in
an unfertilized and dreary country ;
and Leifr in the meanwhile went to
aihil in the war in England. After an
interval of four years, they met again
in Iceland, the one bringing with
him a coniiderable number o f people,
with the neceifary tools and implements
for rqaking the country habitable
; and the other imported his
acquired treafures. Since this period
lUftny people went there to fettle,
and in lixty years time the whole
iiland was inhabited ; and king Ha-*
rold, who did not contribute a little
towards it by his tyrannical treatment
of the petty kings and lords in Nor-
jiiandy, was atlail obliged to iilue an
order.
order, that no one iliould fail frotrt
Norway to Iceland, without paying
four ounces o f fine iilver to the king,
in order to put a flop, in fome mea-
fure, to thofe continual emigrations
which weakened his kingdom,
Though the greateft part o f the
inhabitants came from Norway, there
are however many Danes and Swedes
among them. Of the latter I will
only mention the following, from that
edition of Landnama. Bokj which was
printed at Skallholt. Ingimundwrf an
earl in the Gothic empire, one of the
clefcendants of Bore, Gore’s brother,
p. 90 ; with his friends Jorundr, Ej-
vindr Sorkver,- Afmundr, and Hvate-
fridleifr ; and his ilaves Fridmundr,
Bodvar, Thorer Reffkegg, and Ulf-
kell, p* 90 : Thordur, defcended by
the father’s fide in the fifth degree
from Ragnar Lodbrock, p. 102: Thordur
Knappur, natural fon of Biorns
of Haga ; and Nafar Helge, p. 104:-
Bruni Hin Hviti, ion of Hareks,
earl of Upland, p. 104 : Thermo-
dur Hin Rami, p. 105: Iftoni Rolf-
fl'on of the blood royal, p. 105 :
E Helgi