. With the world's people : an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social evolution, and present conditions and promise of the principal families of men : together with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning . —ICRLA NDJiKS. 37 had fled as a consequence of their aristo-cratic character. There is a tradition tothe effect that Queen And, widow ofOlaf the White, brought over an Ice-landic immigration about the year Christian faith had already beenaccepted in Scandinavia, and was thusplanted at any eai-ly period in th
. With the world's people : an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social evolution, and present conditions and promise of the principal families of men : together with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning . —ICRLA NDJiKS. 37 had fled as a consequence of their aristo-cratic character. There is a tradition tothe effect that Queen And, widow ofOlaf the White, brought over an Ice-landic immigration about the year Christian faith had already beenaccepted in Scandinavia, and was thusplanted at any eai-ly period in the first, political stability seemsto have characterized the developmentof the Icelandic nationality. The pop-ular epoch of the islanders was theyear 874, and ever since that date Ice- lodgment on the western coast of Ice-land. There were four classes of pop-ulation thus established, in course oftime giving rise to four divisions-in thepolitical geography of the island. P>utall were Norse. If there was an originalCeltic population it was swept away, andby the beginning of the twelfth centurythere were fifty thousand people in theisland. Of there were aboutfour thousand five hundred franklins, orheads of houses. The social was like that. ARI UKI-; (IF A lARAVAN.—Drawn by V. Foulquier, after a skelch of Nc land has remained an appanage of theDanish crown. In our own times,namely, in 1874, the thousandth anni-versary of the national era was cele-brated with every circumstance of patri-otic pride; and visitors were gatheredto this ancient seat of the Norse racefrom almost every civilized country inEurope and the New World. After the immigrations referred to,by which a Scandinavian population wascarried into Iceland, others followed,adding to the incrementalready in possession ofthe country. These werefrom the Western islands, the nativelair of the Vikings. The seafarers wentforth after their manner, and found Successive in-crements; clas-sification
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