ROUTE III.—A SUMMER’S TOUR IN ICELAND. 125 buttress. After traversing the lava-beds, the path winds close round SJcjaldbrei^S on the north to a number of small lakelets, Brunnar (Wells), whose grassy banks are frequently the halting- place of travellers, as the Wells lie at the junction of three tracks between the north and south parts of the island. It will probably take six hours to reach this halting-spot, even if the travellers have good pack ponies, not too heavily laden; and two hours’ halt should be made there, as it will take four hours’ rather sharp riding to bring the party to the first farm in the Reylcholtsdalr, and about another hour to reach the parsonage. The travellers with their ‘ Garnet Wolseleys,’ or box-bed arrangement, would doubtless be able to pass the night, should the ponies be greatly fatigued, at one of the farms in the upper part of the valley, but it is believed the houses are somewhat poor ones. There is pro- bably, however, a large decent room at Biirfell (Bower-fell), a farm lying higher up the valley than the parsonage, for here the local pi'ng holds its meetings. Eleventh Day.—At Reylchott. This should be a day of absolute rest for the ponies; but the travellers may pass their time very pleasantly examining the numerous hot springs in the valley. There is very fair accommodation at the parsonage. Here, in the first half of the thirteenth century, lived Snorri Sturluson, the most celebrated Saga-writer of Iceland, the author of the prose, or elder, Edda. He was one of the traitorous sons of Iceland who conspired to hand over the island to Eing Hakon of Norway, but he did not live to reap any reward at its annexation, for the project set the whole island in a blaze, and he was slain here in his own dwelling. A mound near the present parsonage, it is said, ‘ covers the chamber in which the poet was attacked and murdered.’ It might, from an archaeological point of view, repay the cost and trouble of excavation. Close by is ‘ Snorri’s Bath,’ a primitive piece of masonry circular in form, and about fifteen feet in diameter, in a sad state of decay, into which water from a hot spring near is conveyed by an underground duct. Here the traveller will be able to enjoy the luxury of a warm bath at any temperature he pleases, by diverting the supply and awaiting the cooling of the pool. The most interesting of the hot springs in the valley, and the only one probably that the traveller fresh from the Geyrir and StrokJcr will care to see, is the Arhver (Biver-hot-spring), which bursts forth from a rocky islet raised but a few feet above the icy cold waters of the river. There is also a group of hot springs, the Tunguliverir (Tongue-hot-springs), a few miles from the junction

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