--with lentland, a barren skerry. "Islande" he regards as a

mi.reading for "Estlanda," and identifies it with Shetland, which is probable and reasonable, as the haines are very much alike and correspond geographically. Islands," according to the old custom of naming c;tpitals after the countts,, was the chief town of "Estland" or Shetland. "Grislanda" is the same as Grc,ss Ev or Gross Iland, as the mainland of the Orkneys was calleel in the past. So "Talas" is Yelli; "roas," Barras; "Iscant," Unst; "Trans," St. l{onans; "5Iimant," the mainland of the Shetlands; "Damhere," Hamna; and "Bres," 1Iressay. These identifications, too, seem not unlikely. Gross Ey has a very wild coast and would naturally appear to be uninhabited.

The main diculty is, however, with "Frislanda." Some have supposed that this island, or group of islands, has disappeared through some cataclysm of nature, a for which suppositiou geology and surveys give no ground whatever. Others, and Mr. 5Iajor amongst them, consider that "Frisland" is the FarSe Islands. The old name in Danish was "FaerSisland," which very easily becomes" Frislanda." The expedition of" Zichmni" against" Fris- landa," with which the story opens, would then be explained by Sinels. it's occupatiou of the islands, which, considering the turbulent character of their Norse inhabitants at that date, and the opposition of Sperre, might have been a matter of some little trouble. The identification of the names mentioned in and near "Frislanda" is not easy. "Moutco" may be Monk Isle, a skerry of most insignificant size to the extreme south; "Ilofe" may 1)e a misreading for "$1ofe," and this again the Italian for" SkuSe"; and "Bondendon" may be--though the resemblance is very faint--Norderd&hl. But it is very dicult to see how "Ledovo" cau be Little (or Lilla 1)imou; or "Sanestol," SanriSe. For at "Ledovo" the fleet of "Zichnmi" lies to and refreshes. But Little I)imon is a small rocky island, steep-to, with no anchorage, no haven, but only breakers dashiug against an iron coast, which rises precipitously l:J00 feet? It is uninhal,ited and cau only be approached with

This was Forster's first suggestion. So also Zurla. Zahrtmam; Major, 'Zeni,' ix.-xiii.; Steenstrup (,,mpte 11endu, Congrs des Amerieanistes' (Copen., 1888), 150-ll50) holds that the "Frislanda" of the map unquestionably leeland, and not the Fardes; that the "Frislanda" of the text is N,rth

F,'ieslm,l; in part Admiral lrminger agrees with l,im (' l'rocce, l. Geog. Not.,' London. vol. xlix. pp. 3'.-41'_'). Iajor, fi,llowing el'P- 412), court, wefts his views. a . Like a haycock" (Adm. Irminger). For a woodcut of the island, 'i,.b. op. e#., 402.