Icelandern.

1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 744 Arngrin Jonas an Islander.

1674 tr. P. M. de la Martinière New Voy. Northern Countries (title page) A Description of the Manners [etc.] of the Norwegians, Laponians..and Islanders.

1743 R. Blair Grave 26 The shiv'ring Icelander.

1767 tr. D. Cranz Hist. Greenland I. iii. i. 132 The Greenlanders call themselves..Innuit... The Icelanders, who many hundred years ago discovered..this country and the neighbouring coasts of America, called them in form Skrællings, because they are little of stature.

1834 G. Bancroft Hist. U.S. I. i. 9 The remote discoveries, which Icelanders had made in Greenland.

1893 Atlantic Monthly Feb. 160/2 An Icelander barters a certain number of horses or sheep or rolls of dried fish or balls of hay for a supply of groceries.

1929 F. B. Austin Saga of Sea 105 Flosi, the Icelander known admiratively as Skull-splitter, was with them.

1969 V. Bartlett Past of Pastimes vii. 86 The piece the Anglo-Saxons (and the Icelanders) call the ‘bishop’ has experienced remarkable changes, apart from its increased mobility from two squares to the diagonal length of the board.

2002 M. Kurlansky Salt (2003) xxv. 401 Older Icelanders still horrify youth with smelly little chunks of hákarl, buried Greenland shark.

1777 St. James's Chron. 22–24 May 3/2 The next Flight was at a Hare, at which a large Hawk, called an Icelander, was let fly, and gave the greatest Diversion to a Number of Gentlemen and Ladies present.

1828 J. S. Sebright Observ. Hawking (new ed.) 44 The Icelander is the largest hawk that is known, and highly esteemed by falconers.

1893 Baily's Mag. May 115/2 The prevailing colour of the..Icelander is dark, turning to grey as the bird grows older.

1905 Irish Naturalist Oct. 201 Possibly the other bird mentioned may have been an Icelander.