The polar and tropical worlds : a description of man and nature in the polar and equatorial regions of the globe . THE pastors house, THINGVALLA. THE ICELANDERS. 107. .•^• coal is not the least of his labors, forwhatever the distance may be to thenearest thicket of dwarf-birch, he mustsro thitlier to burn the wood, and tobring it home when charred across hishorses back. His hut is scarcely bet-ter than that of the meanest fisherman ;a bed, a rickety table, a few chairs, anda chest or two, are all his is, as long as he. lives, the condi-tion of the Icelandic clergyman, andlearnin
The polar and tropical worlds : a description of man and nature in the polar and equatorial regions of the globe . THE pastors house, THINGVALLA. THE ICELANDERS. 107. .•^• coal is not the least of his labors, forwhatever the distance may be to thenearest thicket of dwarf-birch, he mustsro thitlier to burn the wood, and tobring it home when charred across hishorses back. His hut is scarcely bet-ter than that of the meanest fisherman ;a bed, a rickety table, a few chairs, anda chest or two, are all his is, as long as he. lives, the condi-tion of the Icelandic clergyman, andlearning, virtue, and even genius arebut too frequently buried under tliissqualid poverty. But few of my readers have proba-bly ever heard of the poet Jon Thor-lakson, but who can withhold the trib-ute of his admiration from the poorpriest of Backa, who with a fixed in-come of less than £6 a year, and con-demned to all the drudgery which Ihave described, finished at seventyyears of age a translation of MiltonsParadise Lost, having previouslytranslated Popes Essay on Man. Three of the first books only of the Paradise Lost were printed by theIcelandic Literary Soc
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