The Life of the Icelander Jón Ólafsson, Traveller to India

CONTENTS
PAGES
PREFACE .......... vii-xii
INTRODUCTION ........ xix-xxxiv
GENEALOGICAL TABLE ...... .xxxv
AUTHOR'S PREFACE ....... 3-4
CHAP.
I. Birth, Ancestry and Upbringing .... 5-13
II. Arrival of English vessel and voyage to Harwich and to Newcastle. ...... 14-21
III. Newcastle. J6n's troubles in Harwich and voyage to London: his stay there .... 22-29
IV. Description of London. Reference to Gunpowder Plot. The pirates and departure for Denmark ........ 30—32
V. Copenhagen. Service in King's stables. Enlistment.Icelandic friends.. ..... 33-38
VI. Various scandals in Copenhagen .... 39~47
VII. The cobbler and other thieves. Elopements with soldiers ........ 48-51
VIII. Death of the Chancellor. Mishaps to Pattentia. Voyage to Flekkera in Norway. Jon's conversation with the king about Iceland. Firing at Dutch vessel. Rosenborg Gardens ........ 52-61
XI. The Long Bridge. Burgomasters of Copenhagen. The Arsenal watch. The royal foundry. Jon's fights ....... 62-74
X. Jon's fight with the citizens' watch. His defence of Iceland ........ 75-80
XI. The Provision-Store and Jon's sentry-duty there. The Italian craftsman and his foundrywork for the king. ..... 81-86
XII. The clock. The quack doctors. The rope-walkers. Strolling players ..... 87-90
XIII. The Bishop's visit to Copenhagen. Merrymaking in Copenhagen. The Comedy. Jon befriends one of the Bishop's followers .... 91-97
XIV. The mad cook. Jon's departure to Kronborg and duties there. Freezing of Sound. The Comet. ....... 98-105
XV. The visit to the plague-stricken man and what came of it ....... 106-110
XVI. Jon's fights at Kronborg and adventures at Elsinore. The meeting of the kings at Halmstad. The collecting of the Sound dues. Elsinore's churches. Bell and guns at Kronborg ....... 111-117
XVII. Return to Copenhagen. Story of capture of the pirate Mandaus (Mendoza) by Admiral Jorgen Daa ....... 118-123
XVIII. Voyage to Kildin. Pirate raid on coast of Norway. Vardo. Kildin. The Russians. Russia ........ 124-134
XIX. Return voyage. The Finns ..... 135-137
XX. Encounter with vessels from Hamburg. Icelandic waters. Storm. Faroes. Merry-making ........ 138-146
XXI. Voyage to Spitzbergen. The Biscayans. Dealings with English ships. Jon's mishap in firing salute ........ 147-153
XXII. Story of an Englishman's winter in Spitzbergen. Reindeer hunting and whaling ........ 154-159
XXIII. The Dutch ship. The whale. Quarrel between Danish Admiral and Captain. Departure and storm ....... 160-162
XXIV. The storm. Scurvy and its cure. Arrival in Flekkefjord. Jon's difference with a Biscayan. Copenhagen ..... 163-166
XXV. The Icelandic envoys. Jon's arrest and confinement ....... 167-176
XXVI. Jon's trial and sentence ..... 177-184
XXVI. King's intervention. Confinement in Arsenal ........ 185-190
XXVIII. Care of the lunatic apprentice. Jon's interview with the king, and pardon........ 191—196
XXIX. The witch's trial and accusation against Grabow. Suicide of Anna. The New Graveyard as a drinking-place .... 197-201
XXX. Pardon obtained by nobility for Grabow. The suicide's burial. The king's roads. Work for the king at Ibstrup. The High Germans. The king's toil. The artillerymen's feast and punishment. Christine Svale and
witchcraft. Voyage to Bergen ........ 202-212
XXXI. Sea-custom at Back van Ra. Session of the High Court at Bergen. Bishop Anders and Henning Henningsen. Bergen and its churches. The garper or German merchants. Return voyage and mishap to main-mast ....... 213-219
XXXII. Jon enlists for service in India. His wages. The soothsayer ....... 220-222
APPENDIX. Popular tales about Jon Olafsson ........ 223-225
LIST OF WORKS REFERRED TO IN THE NOTES ........ 226-227
INDEX OF PROPER NAMES ....... 228-233
LIST OF DANISH AND ENGLISH FORMS OF ICELANDIC CHRISTIAN NAMES ....... 234
INDEX OF PLACE NAMES ....... 235-237
TOPOGRAPHY OF COPENHAGEN : ALPHABETICAL LIST ........ 238
INDEX OF SHIPS OF WAR ....... 238