Note 341 — Chapter II · THE LANDFALL—FISHING FLEET—TO REYKJAVIK.
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The very word is Norsk, “leiðar-(Anglo-Saxon, lâd) steinn,” not “lapis viæ,” but leading stone (að leiða), or lode-stone; like lode-star and lodesman, “a pilot.” It is also called Sólar-steinn, or “sun-stone.”