Meanings
- obsoleteObsolete spelling of Icelandic.
He was well verſed in the hiſtory of the North; and compiled ſeveral annals, which, though now loſt, furnished materials for the chronicles for the earlieſt Icelandick authors, whoſe works are at preſent extant.
1784, William Coxe, Travels Into Poland, Russia, Sweden, and Denmark: Interspersed with Historical Relations and Political Inquiries, Volume 3, S. Price, page 3832 more examples
In the diſtrict of Swambiſter, or Suenobiſter, are the ruins of an ancient tower, of a circular form, and about 180 feet in circumference; and once, probably, the reſidence of Sueno Boerſtrop, who was killed by the famous Sueno Aſteriſæ, during a Chriſtmas entertainment in this pariſh, at the houſe of Paul, one of the Norwegian Counts of Orkney; of which a very particular account is given by the Icelandick hiſtorian of Saga Orcadenſis.
1797, The Statistical Account of Scotland: Drawn Up from the Communications of the Ministers of the Different Parishes, Volume 19, W. Creech, page 417He has given us an appendix, consisting of three numbers, the first of which contains a historical view of the translation and different editions of the Icelandick scriptures, the second is a poem of thanks addressed by Sira Jon Thorlakson, the translator of Milton, to the British and foreign Bible Society, together with a Latin translation, and an English imitation; and the third is a disquisition on Icelandick poetry.
1819, The Analectic Magazine, Volume 14, Moses Thomas, page 471
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