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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90698	The present state of Denmark and reflections upon the ancient state thereof. Together with a particular account of the birth, education, martial atchievements and brave performances of His Royal Highness Prince George, only brother of His present Majesty of Denmark. / By G. Pierreville Gent. Secretary to the King's Minister at the Court of Denmark.	Pierreville, Gideon.	1683 (1683)	Wing P2212A; ESTC R203183	58,876	158

by Irish Merchants Papey Besides there is still several remains and monuments of Idolatry in this Island which show its ancient Inhabitants to have been Pagans whereas the Danes and Norwegians at the time of their first setling there were Christians The modern Natives are for the most part plain and simple living on what is given them by nature without the help of Art more then that of making Cheese and Butter the Mountains serving them for Towns and the Rivers for Drink and they quarter with their Horses and their Oxen under one and the same roof As they do not stand in need of either Physick or Physician so neither do they use any their temperance in meat and drink and the naturally strong constitution of their Bodies enabling many of them to attain to the age of 150 years and more Nay Olaus Magnus affirms they commonly live to the age of three hundred years and Blykenius reports that he saw a man in Iseland who told him that he had then lived two hundred years Their habitations are for the most part of timber roofed with slags or turfs with a hole on the side of the roof to let in their light though in their Cities of Hola and Shalholt instead of Tiles they make use of fir-boards But in their Hurts scatter'd up and down the Country the Iselanders and their Cattle have the same lodging for the poorer sort of the Inhabitants being destitute of Wood and Turf and not able to purchase fuel from abroad are forced in the extremity of Winter to betake themselves to a corner of their Ox-stalls and there borrow warmth from their Cattle The food of the Iselanders is upon Beef Mutton and the like with most sorts of Foul which they have in great abundance the truth is they have no variety of Sauces but the sharpness of the air furnisheth them with stomachs which need none Fish they have great plenty of and which dried is indeed their only bread and their Ling is so excellent that even with us it is counted one of our greatest Dainties Their most common Drink is Whey which is generally so good that an ounce of it will very well bear half an Ounce of Water They have also a sort of Mead made of Barley flower and a Honey-comb boyled in Water and another liquor squeezed out of a certain reddish Berry peculiar to this Isle But though they have neither Ale Bear nor Wine they can make a shift to be sumptuous nay profuse in their Revels and Banquets for we read that Theodore and Thorwald Brethren and Citizens of Hialtedat in North Iseland solemnizing the Funerals of their Father Hialta entertained twelve hundred Persons for fourteen days together at a Banquer and at the departure of his Guests made 'em all presents every one suitable to his quality many more instances have they of the same kind They have little mony in Iseland what they have is Danish but that in very small quantity bartering one Commodity for another being their method of buying and selling as it was of all other Nations in the Non-age of Commerce The principal Commodities of this Country are Whalebone which they have in such abundance that many of 'em make Houses of it and the only Bridge in the Island is framed of the same matter they also formerly exported vast quantities of Beef Mutton Butter and the like and do still dryed Fish and Brimstone the great Veins whereof do feed and nourish the flames of Mount Heela which is one of the greatest Vulcanoes in the Universe it belches forth by fits such inundations of fire as menace the whole Isle with a general conflagration vomiting not only flame fiery Coals but large torrents of water which burn like Brandy or Aqua-vitae At other times it casts forth stupendious quantities of Cinders and pumice stones insomuch that it darkneth the Sun The West wind occasions its greatest outrages so that when the wind blows moderately from that quarter the People of the adjacent Plains knowing the safest passages to the Mountain crow'd up to the mouth of the furnace where they find their Diversion by throwing great stones into the flames which return them with as great violence as a barrel of Gunpowder blows up the slates of a House Whereby a man runs great danger in approaching the flames who is not perfectly acquainted with every part of the mountain for he not only runs the risque of being knocked on the head with some of those stones which frequently comes to pass but also the ground does surprizingly open and the flames swallow up men alive Of this and two other Mountains in this Island called Helga and la Croix more strange circumstances are related than what are said of Aetna many of the silly superstitious Inhabitants believing that underneath it is Hell and the abode of the damned some do confidently report that they have frequently seen whole Herds of Devils throng into the mouth of the furnace with their Burthens of damn'd Souls and having eas'd their shoulders return for a new leading Nay they will confidently pretend to know the very day that any Battle is fought in any part of the world by observing the more than usual importation of Souls on such days Another place of Torments the Natives do imagine to be under the Rocks on the Sea Coasts and the clashing of the Ice against the shoar and banks makes such a noise as they take for the howling of the damn'd There is also said to be a Fountain in Iseland which petrefies immediately whatever is thrown into it so that if a man takes a long pole and stick part of it into the bottom of the lake that part of the staff which sticks in the Earth will presently be turned into Iron the middle into Stone and the uppermost part remain Wood which came not into the water the same Authors write of another lake there which sends forth such pestiferous exhalations as poyson the Birds which flie that way The modern language of Iseland is the true old Danish Tongue used in ancient inscriptions and other monuments of Runick learning which has been preserved Chast and pure to this day in Iseland by reason of the little Commerce they have had with other Nations Iseland was formerly divided into four Provinces called East West North and South Iseland from the four quarters of the World Each of these Provinces was subdivided into three lesser Districts except North Iseland being larger into four Every Districk had in it three publick Courts of Judicature and ten or more Vreppar or Constable Wards the Government of the Isle was Aristocratical till the year 1260. when being brought under the Crown of Norway it since followed the fortunes of it in all Changes of Church and State made subiect with it to the Kings of Denmark together with it reformed in matters of Religion according to the Confession at Augsbourg retaining still their Bishops with a limited power and turning