I am fifty, and in fifty years a man has experienced, as a rule, all the ordinary and most of the extraordinary sensations that a human being can be subjected to.

"Do you promise me to go northward?" asked Veterlide. Ljot gave him the promise, and when he had left the neighborhood, Veterlide sailed for Iceland. He parted from Gunnar in a most friendly fashion and they gave each other rich gifts; to Vigdis he gave a golden brooch and a mirror of Southern workmanship; she bestowed on him at parting an embroidered cloak of red silk.

Professor Lidenbrock followed the trail of this philosopher and alchemist down the crater on Snæfellsjökull all the way to the centre of the earth; there he found Saknússemm's rusty old knife lying on the bare ground. I seem to recall that Professor Lidenbrock came out again through Stromboli.