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 ROYAIi SOCIETY 
 OF UrORTMERlV AUTTIQ^UARIEji, 
 
 AGENTS TO THE SOCIETY: 
 
 LONDON, Messrs. Preller & Gabain. 
 BOSTON MASS., Messrs. A. <Sc C. Cunningham. 
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 ANTIQUITATES AMERICANiE 
 
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 jSCRIPTOIIE!§ ISEPTElTTRIONAIiEli 
 REBUM AllTTE-COliUMBIAIirARUM 
 tX AMERICA. 
 
 j^ILlexander von Humboldt, who of all modern travellers has thrown 
 the greatest light on the physical circumstances, first discovery, and ear- 
 liest history of America, has admitted that the Scandinavian Northnien 
 were the true original discoverers of the New World 3 a fact which seve- 
 ral later writers of eminence have nevertheless either flatly denied, or 
 called in question. The above mentioned great inquirer has however 
 remarked that the information which the Public as yet possesses of that 
 remarkable epoch in the middle ages is extremely scanty, and he has 
 expressed a wish that the Northern Literati would collect and publish all 
 the accounts relating to that subject. The Royal Society of Northern Anti- 
 quaries considers it a matter of duty to comply with this wish, embracing 
 a threefold purpose: that of Illustrating ancient geographj' and history ; that 
 of perpetuating the memory of our forefathers, and lastly that of everlas- 
 tingly securing to them that honorable station In the history of the World, of 
 Science, of Navigation, and of Commerce, to which they are justly entitled. 
 This has appeared to the Society to be so much the more necessary, since 
 the latest researches have rendered it In a high degree probable, that the 
 knowledge of the previous Scandinavian discovery of America, preserved 
 in Iceland, and communicated to Columbus when he visited that island in 
 1177, operated as one, and doubtless as one of tiie most powerful of the 
 causes which Inspired the mind of that great man (whose glory cannot in any 
 degree be impaired by the prior achievement) with that admirable zeal, which 
 bidding defiance to every difficulty enabled him to eflfect the new discovery 
 of the New World under circumstances that necessarily led to its imme- 
 dlate, uninterrupted, and constantly increasing colonization and occupation 
 by the energetic and intelligent races of Europe. For this his memory 
 will be Imperishable among the nations of the earth. Yet still we Northmen 
 ought not to forget his meritorious predecessors, our own forefathers, who 
 in their way had dIfFiculties to contend with not less formidable, since 
 
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 Avltlioiit knowledge of tiip propcriirs of (iie niac^ncf, without aul of com- 
 pass, chartej or mathematical scienco properly so called, they dared to 
 navigate the great Ocean, and thus hy de2:ree.s discovered and partly co- 
 Ionized Iceland in the ninth century, Greenland in the tenth, and subse- 
 quently several of the Islands and Coasts of America durinj? the latter 
 part of the tenth and beiinnini? of the eleventh century. 
 
 It is the last of these epochs — very remarkable in the history of 
 the world, yet not suHicicntly known — that forms the subject of the 
 w-ork now announced. ]S'o separate work has hitherto been devoted to 
 this subject, if we except the Vinlandia of Torfa-us, published in 1705, 
 and now extremely scarce. That work however does not contain any 
 collection of the orio-inal statements on which the investigation must bV 
 based, and such accounts as it does communicate are but few and incom- 
 plete. This coileciion thei'cfore nov^^ makes its appearance for the first 
 time as complete as possible, compiled from the numerous and valuable 
 M8S now extant, and accompanied by a Danish and also rt complete 
 Latin translation ; and by prefatory' remarks, arcluieolofflcal and geogra- 
 phical disfjuisitions, and other critical apparatus also in Latin. Of its 
 contents we can here merely give a brief sketch, mentioning only the prin- 
 cipal seclions. Among these may be named, first the historical accounts 
 of Erik the Ked, and the Greenlanders, extracted — and now for the first 
 time accurately published — from the celebrated Codex Flateyensis, parti- 
 cularly coiicerning BiAr.NK Ukritji.fson's and Leif Euicson's first discovery 
 of the American Islands and Coasts, and the several voyages thither, per- 
 formed by licif's brothers and sister. Z^'ext the vSaga of TnORFIN^' Thord- 
 so.\ suniamed Xarlsefae, descended from Irish, Scottish, Norwegian, Swe- 
 dish and Danish Ancestors, chiefly taken from two ancient MSS never 
 before edited, and in fact not previously knoAvn to the Literati, the one of 
 which is su})posed to be partly a genuine autograph of the celebrated 
 Hank Ei-lendson, La^vman of Iceland, well known as a compiler of one of the 
 Heccnsions of the fjandnama-book. This very remarkable Saga contains 
 detailed accounts of Thorfinn Karlsefne's and his company's three years 
 voyages and residence in Am.erica, whereby an entirely new light is diffu- 
 sed over tliis subject hitherto so little known. The only knowledge that 
 TorfiTus had of this f^'aga, which he imagined to be lost, was derived from 
 some corrupted extracts of it contained in the collection of materials for 
 the history of ancient Greenland left by the Iceland FarnK'r Biorn John- 
 son of Skardso. It is now for the first time submitted to the literary 
 >vorld in a complete form. The work here announced moreover contains 
 every thing else that the Society has been able to collect and discovei- 
 relating to that knowledge of the IN'cav World which our forefathers obtained 
 f.'om tiie early discoveries and researches of the Northman. Among these 
 we may mention, 1. Adam of Bremen's accounts of ViNEi,A!vn (in America) 
 written in the eleventh century, being in fact communicated to him by the 
 Danish King vS^veyn Estritlison, and compiled from authentic accounts fur- 
 nished to him by Danes, and now for the first time published from the 
 excellent Codex in the Imperial Library at Yienna, of which a Facsimile has 
 been transmitted to the Society by the Chief of the Library, Count Diet- 
 richstein. , 2. Are Frode's account of Yineland, written in the same or 
 in the following centuiy ; and also 3, of the eminent Icelandic chief Are 
 M\RSON, one of liis own ancestors, who In the year 9S3 was driven to a 
 part of America situate near Y'ineland, then called Hvitramanxalam) or 
 Great lRF,rAND, whose inhabitants (of Irish origin) prevented him from re- 
 turning, but at the same time treated him with great respect. 4. Other 
 .mcient accounts respecting the Icelandic hero Bioniv AsKRAxnsoN, in his 
 
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 day one of the lorasburg; Warriours under Palnatoke, and fighting alonj;- with 
 them in the battle of Fyi'isval in ^Sweden : he also in the year 999 re- 
 paired to one of the coasts of America, where he was detained in the same 
 manner, but resided there as chief over the nati\es for about 30 years. 
 5. Account of an Icelatidic iiiaiiner, Glolkif Gidlalgson, wlio was driven 
 to the same coast in the ycnv 1027, and who Avas rescued from death or 
 captivity by his above mentioned countryman. 6. Extracts from the 
 Annals of Iceland of the middle ages, in so far as they relate to America, 
 particularly Bishop Enic's voyage to Yineland in 1121 j the discovery of 
 new countries by the Icelanders in the Western Ocean in 1285 j an expe- 
 dition fi-om Norway and Icelan<l in the year 1288-90 5 and also a trading 
 voyage from tlie ancient colony in Greenland to Markland in America in 
 1.347, as recorded by contemporaries. 7. Ancient accounts of the most 
 northern districts of Gieenland and America, chiefly visited by the North- 
 men for the purpose of hunting and fishing j among these a very remark- 
 able account (from a letter of a Greenland clergyman) of a Aovack 
 or D1SC0VEP.Y undertaken by some clergymen from tiie 13isho]iric of Gard- 
 ar in Greenland, in the year 1206, being — as is corroborated by an 
 ustronwmical observation — tiirolgh J/ANCASTkr !Soi..M) aM) Bahiu)\v's 
 Stkait to regions which in our days liavc for the first time been made 
 correctly known through the zealous exertions of .Sir William Parry , ^ir 
 John Ross, and Capt. James C'lark Ross, and other British na\iialors. 
 8. Extracts from the ancient geograjihical Avorks of the Icelandri'.; , to 
 which is added an outline taken in the 131 h century representing the 
 earth in four inhabited quarters. 9. An ancient I'aroish Qvaji wlurdn 
 Vineland is named, and allusion is niade to i(s connexion with Irehuul. 
 
 To Avhich aie added i. A descrij)tion acrtuapanied by delinealloiis and 
 occasionally by perspective views of sexeral Mumimenls, chielly Imscrii)- 
 iions, from Ike midiile ayes, found jiartly in GnKK.M.Axn and pai'dy in the 
 ►States of MASSACHL'siiTTs and Rhode-Islano in North America, on the one 
 hand confirming the accounts in the Sa^as, and on the other illustrated 
 by them. 11. Detailed Geoyraplticul Inquiries lately undertaken at (he 
 instance of the Society, Avhereby the sites of (he regions and places 
 named in the tSagas are ex|il()i-ed, and aie ].>oin(ed out under tiie names 
 by Avhich they are now coiniuonly knoAvn. >iz. N ewi oi m>i.am), Bay or !St. 
 LAWMENCii , .\ovA {ScoTiA , and Copeciully the States of Massa<:iiisktts iind 
 Rhode-Island, and even districtb moi e t(» the South, probably triluate in N'lr.- 
 GiNiA, North CAno^^^A, atul in Florida, Avhich is supposed to be the most sou- 
 therly land mentioned in the most authentic Saga-accoun<s, although sundry 
 of the Northern Geographers of the middle ages would seem to intimate tlieiV 
 knowledge of the easterly direction taken by the conlinent tsf South America. 
 They are chiefly based on the aceitunts in Jlie ancient AISS. and on the expla- 
 nations of the aslronoiiiical, nauticul and ycographica/ statemenls con- 
 tained in the same, which besides receive the most complete confii-matidn 
 from accounts transmitted by distinguished American scholars, wi(h uliom 
 the Society have entered into correspondence, and who. afler several jour- 
 neys undertaken for that object in I>iassac!iusets and Rhode-Island, have 
 communicated accurate illustrations respectiuii: the nature of the countries 
 their climate, animals, ])roductions, etc., aiul have furnished the Society with 
 descriptions and also with delineations of the ancient iMonunicnts found'there. 
 Ul. AChronolot/ical Co/is/jectus, arranging under their proper dates (he several 
 voyages to Amei ica and the most important events which oecurred in that quar- 
 ter of theworld. IV. An Index ofVersons, in which thenamesof (hose persona 
 (of both sexes) who (ouk part in the American >'ovagcs are printed in a diffe- 
 rent type. Y. A Gcoyraithicul Index, in which the hame method i> folluu ed 
 
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 in reo:ard to names of places mentioned in America. VI. An Index Rerum, 
 containing: among other things the names of the various productions of the 
 American countries. VII. Genealogical Tables, showing the lineage of the most 
 eminent of the Northern discoverers of America, continued down to our days, 
 wherefjv it is demonstrated that many persons uoav living in Iceland, Nor- 
 way, and Denmark, as also the celebrated sculptor Thorwaldsen in Rome, 
 do actually descend from them, that is from men, who 800 years ago were 
 tiie chiefs of the American natives, or avIio were at that remote period 
 born in America. 
 
 The Avork consists of 65 sheets large Quarto and is accompanied by 
 18 large engravings , viz: 8 Facsimiles, some of which represent entire 
 pages of the best of the MSS employed on the present occasion, in order 
 to give a clear and complete idea of their nature: by dint of much pains 
 the artist has succeeded in representing them with great accuracy, both as 
 regards the outlines of the letters, Avhich Avere often much faded aAvay 
 and dijficult to discern, and also the colour of the different parchments. 
 Further 1 Maps, viz: I. One of Ancient Iceland^ being the first ever 
 made, representing its republican division about tiie year 1000, con- 
 structed by the Icelandic geographer Biorn Gunnlaugson Avith the aid 
 of Finn Magnusen and other Icelandic scholars. 2. A Map of the di- 
 strict of Julianehaab in Greenland, probably comprizing the Eystri- 
 bygd, as it Avas called, (also important in a geographical point of vIcav), 
 constructed for the Society by Capt. William A. Graah R.N. from observa- 
 tions and measurements made by him in the country itself, and from such ' 
 other authorities as Avere available. On this map are noted the numerous 
 sites Qudcra} of churches and houses of the ancient colonists, as far as 
 these are noAv knoAvn. 3. A General Chart of the Northern Icy Ocean, 
 and of the Coasts of the Atlantic . for the purpose of exhibiting a vieAV 
 of the voyages of discovery. Here is delineated the Eastern part of 
 North-America, together Avith such names of countries, capes, firths, 
 islands, and places, from Lancaster-Sound to Florida, as Avere adopted 
 by the ancient Northmen. 4. A Map of Vineland, also AA-^Ith the ancient 
 Northern appellations. Finally, six Eivgravings being delineations, and 
 partly prospects of the Greenland and American monuments from the middle 
 ages treated of in the Avork^ several of these are very remarkable, and, 
 for the most part, hitherto quite unknoAvn, such as Inscriptions on Rocks 
 in Massachusetts and Rhode-Island, Avhich fi-om the disquisitions con- 
 tained in the Avork, Avould seem to have been partlj^ intended to indicate the 
 Landnam, or the occupation of the country, effected by the ancient Northmen. 
 
 For the convenience of those Avho prefer reading English to Latin, 
 there is given in English a historical vicav of the Voyages of Discovery, 
 .accompanied by the geographical disquisitions, on Avhich account the maps 
 thereunto referring have also English names. Moi-eovcr the several com- 
 munications received from the North American Members of the Society's 
 Committee on the Ante-Columbian History of America are also inserted 
 in English. 
 
 Tbe Society considers the work now announced as so Important and illustra- 
 tive both of the history of the world in general and of the ancient North in parti- 
 cular, that both on this account and also as a well merited tribute to our forefathers, 
 it otiglit in poirjt of ty pog:rapliy and embellishments to be published in as correct 
 .nnd splendid a dress as circumstances may permit. The price is proportioned to 
 the size (if the copi'j^s, and the style in which they are ^ot up; viz. Large Vellum 
 I'aper 5^ , Imperial Paper 3/. and Common Paper likewise 3/. 
 
 'I'he siihscripf ion for the two sets of line paper copies being already nearly 
 filled up, an early application is recommended to individuals who are desivons, 
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 HISTORISKE MINDESMuSRKER. 
 
 (GREENLAND'S HISTORICAL MONUMENTS.) 
 
 HE rediscovery of the coasts of East-Greenland, undertaken at the 
 cost of the Danish Government, and achieved by Captain Graah, has anew 
 directed the public attention towards such traces and vestii:,es as may be 
 still remaining of the ancient Scandinavian Colony in Greenland. Monu- 
 ments and Inscriptions lately discovered in the country itself shew that 
 the colonization and navigation of the ancient iSorthnicn extended all the 
 way from t!.ie southernmost extremity of the land, to its most northern 
 coasts and islands, even farther to the northwaid than it has been found 
 practicable in our days to establish Danish settlements. A commencement 
 has been made of investigating and elucidating the numerous remains of anti- 
 quity in South Greenland, and since 1831 arrangements liave been entered 
 into by this Society for securing theii- more accurate examination, deline- 
 ation and description. Implements and other requisites have been dispatched 
 thither to facilitate the prosecution of Journeys for the purpose of construc- 
 ting maps, of making excavations in the rnins , of executing drawings of 
 the Monuments and Inscriptions, and for accomplishing Avhalever else may 
 tend to a complete elucidation of the olden time of this remote Arctic land : 
 and the local authorities of the country itself, in addition to the services 
 already rendered by them, have ])romised a continuance of their assistance 
 toAvards the prosecution of tliese researches. In this way, and also by 
 means of the elucidations contained in the ancient manuscripts themselves, 
 it is hoped that we may soon ari-ive at a certainty as to the long dispu- 
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 also able to supply much fsirther illustrative information. The Avork will 
 consist of three sections, of which, 
 
 THE FIRST SECTION will contain ancient original writings and frag- 
 ments, chiefly Icelandic or composed in the ancient language common tothr coun- 
 tries of the North, relating to the early History ov Gr.KENi,ANn, with separate 
 introductions, annexed Danish translations, and explanatory notes. To which 
 will be added, 1. Genealogical Tables, continued in some instances to 
 the present tiines; 2. Chronnloffical Lists containing a more complete Cata- 
 logue of the bishops and otiicial persons in Greenland than those hitherto 
 published; 3. Several original Diplomas, some of them newly disco- 
 A^ered and hitherto unpublished, the ref(uisite translations. These 
 
 accounts and documents begin about the year 900 and reach to the middle 
 of the 15th century. Also a collection of less authentic accounts accor- 
 ding to which it would appear that the ancient (\ilony was still in exi- 
 stence in the beginning of tiie IGth century; 1. An abstract of the legal 
 history of the Icelandic republic and of the oldest Lawbook relating to 
 Greenland, and in connexion therewith remarks on the administration of 
 Justice there. 
 
 SECOND SECTION: Collection of ancient accounts relating to the 
 GKOGRAPHicAL AND PHvsicAL i» E sc R n>Tio!v OF G R KEM.A .\n , wifh separate in- 
 troductions, annexed Danish translations, and explanatoi-y remarks. To 
 which will also be added other communications and extracts of alleged, 
 
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 but for the most part later, Yoyag;es of Italians and others to Greenland f 
 among which the voyages of ike Zeni, w\i\\ ciitical and geographical 
 disquisitions annexed. 
 
 THIRD SECTION: Later accounts and researches respecting Green- 
 liAND particularly with regard to the Monumkints of its oldkn time, its 
 antiquities and early history^ among which, 1. A yiew of the more 
 recent literaiy works tieating of that country j 2. the rediscoyery of the 
 Avest coast of Greenland, and its modern colonization with a hricf yiew 
 of the most important yoyages undertaken for that object, concerning which 
 documents hitherto unknown will be communicated; 3. A Topographical 
 DascripHon of West-Greenland (taken partly from the Egedes, Cranz, 
 Thorhallesen, Dalagcr , Bruhn, Arctander, Mork, Saabye, Collin, Worm- 
 ykiold , Kragh, and others} particularly as regards the yestiges and re- 
 mains of the churches and dwelling houses of the ancient colonists, as 
 also other monuments and antiquities remaining from their times, such as^ 
 stones Avith inscriptions, etc. This diyisioji wilt contain extracts from older 
 Avritings , some of which haye been printed but are now scarce, Avhile 
 others of them have never befoi'e been printed^ also a detailed exposition 
 of the result of the investigations undertaken under the management of 
 the Society: 4. Later accounts furnished by Scoresby and otheis, partly 
 taken from the oral statements of native Greenlanders , and Avhich relatti 
 to the East coast and its inhabitants, and also to the Aarious shipwrecks 
 of Danish Acssels, Avitli the loss or preservation of their crews on the 
 same coast, extending down to the period of Graah's Aoyagej 5. Remarks 
 on the most important results of Graah's Aoyage, especially Avith respect 
 to his rediscoA'ery of Gunnbiarnarsker and the Cross Islands, (i. Geogra- 
 phical Researches respecting the site of the firths and other places men- 
 tioned in the ancient M.SS. 
 
 The work Afill l)e acooinpaiiied by illiislralive maps, also by enfrraved plans 
 of flie ruins, delineations of the vunio stones and other vemains oi" antiquity found 
 in Greenland. It will eonsit^t of S Volumes, of which 2 have already issued from 
 the press. I'rice of Vol. I. II., Large Paper 2/. o s. Common Paper 1/. 10 s. 
 
 ANNALS AND MEMOIRS 
 
 OF TilK 
 
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 .Mi<\coTrKAGED by the interest for Northern Antiquities, now a\vakened 
 not only in our remote northern regions, but also in other coun- 
 tries, the Society have resolved to publish their Transact ions and Re- 
 searches concerning the earlier history and antiquities of Northern 
 Europe and America in two sitnultaneous ])eriodical Avorks, to be entitled 
 Aawals and Memoihs ; by which means they, no longer bounding their views 
 by the limits of Northein Europe, hope to render tiie most important 
 of their researches more easily accessible to the Public at large. In 
 the AwALS contributions of tin? above ntentioncd nature Avill be received 
 in Danish or Swctlish, (and occasionally in Icelandic); and, wherever it 
 may appear desireable for the sake of cliicidatlon or informalion , Maps 
 Aviil be given, and also DcUnculions cf Aniiqvilies and of the Monu— 
 
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 menls of ancierif times. The MK]>roins, which are Insopara?}!}- coimected ^vlth 
 the Annals, will comprize similar contributions, in Engrmh^ French or 
 German, either original or translated. In the Memoirs will also be pveii 
 explanatory remarks on the mott important of the Delineations contained 
 in the Annals, and original contributions not elsewhere communicated in 
 the works of the Society. In English, for example, there will be succes- 
 sively inserted the result of the continued investi<i:ations and researches of 
 the Society's Commitlees on the Historical Monuments of Greenland 
 and on the Anle-Columhian History of America , in order to throw as 
 much light as possible on the ancient accounts contained in the two works 
 above announced. 
 
 Of the Annals it is expccfed that (.no Number in 8vo, containing from 10 to 
 12 sheets, will be published yearly cummencing from ]8'^6; ;in(l that a INnmber of 
 similar size will be yMiblished of the Memoirs every second year. The two first 
 Climbers of the Annals are already pnblished, and the lirst Number of the Memoirs 
 will appear in the Summer of iH^iH. In each series iMoAnmbers will always make a 
 \ olume. The price of each Number is 3«. 6rf. , consequently of each volume 7*. 
 
 EARLIER PUBLK^ATIONS. 
 
 FORNMANNA SOGUR or the Tiifttorical Sagas recording events out of Jer- 
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 Vellum Paper (i /. Wa. Common I'aper 4/. !) 
 
 SCKIPTA mSTOIUCA lSLAM)ORllM, the same Sagas translated into 
 Latin, with a crilical apparatus, 12 vol.s 8v(»., of which the lirst 7 arc published. Price 
 of \ I-VII. A'ellum Paper 'M. If), v. Common F'aper 21. 15*. 
 
 OLDNORDISKE SAGAKR, the same Sagas translated info Danish; complefe 
 in 12 Vol.s 8v(). i'rice Common I'aper 'SI. 8*. 
 
 F.KRia iXGA SAGA, or the history of the inhabitants of the Faroe Islands, 
 in Icelandic, the Faroe dialect, and Danish, and with aMap of the islands. 8vo. Price 7*. 
 
 FORiVALDAR SOGIHI [\ OR DRLAM) A , \ ol. Mil., b«;iug a complete edition, 
 in 8vo., of the nitjtho-historical Sagas. I'rice Vellum Paper 2/. 15 s. Common Paper 
 2 I. 2 s. 
 
 KRAKUMAL sive Epirediiim Ragnaris Lodbroci, or Ode on the heroic deeds 
 and death of fhe Danish King Ragnar Lodbrok in England, in Icelandic, Danish, 
 Latin, and French. 8vo. Price 8 «. 
 
 NORDISK TIDSSKlliFT FOR OLDKY^DIGHE^ , Archceological Trans- 
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8, 
 
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 ICEl AM»IC PUBIilCATIOaJ FUI¥», 
 
 ERECTED BY 
 
 THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF NORTHERN ANTIQUARIES. 
 
 I. JLhe Royal Society of Northern Antiquaries has, in conformity 
 with one of its fundamental laws, erected a Permanent Fund, the annual 
 interest of wliich is intended to be devoted exclusively to the publication 
 and interpretation of Old Icelandic MSS and to the promotion of Nor- 
 thern Archfeology in general. 
 
 II. To the progressive augmentation of this Fund are devoted : 1) 
 All Compositions of fifty Rix-Dollars paid by the Members on their ad- 
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 given year, the sum of these Compositions and Donations were to fall 
 short of a fiftli of the Society's whole revenue for that year, so much 
 from the Society's other income to be added thereto as will make them 
 equal to a said fifth part of the whole. 
 
 III. It is incumbent on the Officers of the Society to take care that 
 these Regulations be carried every year into elfect, and especially on the 
 Treasurer to specify in his Annual Accounts that the due amount has 
 been added to the said Fund, as well as on the Auditors of every year 
 to attest the same, with the view that this may be inserted in the Society's 
 Annual Report. 
 
 IV. The Funds thus laid up are not to be diminished by any future 
 resolution of the Society, to provide against which, it is resolved that the 
 Royal Bonds, of Avhich the said Permanent Fund consists, or will consist, 
 shall in conformity herewith be endorsed as inalienable by sale, or transfer. 
 
 At a Meeting of the Society held the 30th of October 1834, these 
 Regulations have, in conformity with the Statutes of the Society, been 
 unanimously adopted, whereunto all 3Icmbers now and henceforward shall 
 conform themselves, observing the same in all their words, clauses, and 
 stipulations. 
 
 Sepabate Regulation in the Statutes: The names of Members Avho 
 pay a Composition of or above 100 Rix-Dollars (II Guineas) are inser- 
 ted in the List of the Founders. This List is to be published in all the 
 Annual Reports of the Society. 
 
 * ^ * The Agents receive for the Society the Compositions of the 
 Society's Members, and of the Founders of the Icelandic Publication 
 Fund 5 likewise Subscriptions and Payments for books published by the 
 Society. 
 
 A number of Copies of the Society's Annual Reports are transmitted 
 yearly to its Agents. In these are contained a List and Accounts of all 
 the Compositions and Donations to the Permanent Fund received during the 
 preceding year, so that every one has it In his power to convince himself 
 that they have been added to the Permanent Fund. These Annual 
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 Agents will also furnish them to Subscribers of the Society's works and 
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