This land is the same on which the town of Reikjavik now stands.

These old sea-kings, like the men of Athens, were "in all things too superstitious."-- ED.
{26} These sea-rovers, that were to the nations of Europe during the middle ages what the Danes, Norwegians, and other northmen were at an earlier period, enjoyed at this time the full flow of their lawless prosperity.

Their insolence and power were so great that many nations, our own included, were glad to purchase, by a yearly payment, exemption from the attacks of these sea-rovers.

The Americans paid this tribute so late as 1815.

The unfortunate Icelanders who were carried off in the seventeenth century nearly all died as captives in Algiers.