To an American, a visit to the home of the old Northmen is a visit back to his forefathers' house. A thousand signs tell him he is at the cradle of the race which leads modern enterprise, and whose Viking power on both hemispheres has not yet ceased to be felt. In giving a sketch of a journey among the norse-folk, it has seemed to me that there were two sides which should most of all interest their descendants and kinsmen in the New World: one, the associations and memorials which connect them with the age when the wild energy of the race was transplanted to the British Islands, and even touched brie?y in its enterprises the coasts of America; and the other, the life of today.