Note 1. Bodies have been found frozen, and in perfect condition, after a lapse of nearly half a century.
Chapter Nine.
The Parting.
Among the Northern nations, especially the Norse, you meet types of men and women as utterly different from those of Southern climes as if they belonged to another sphere. The same blessed religion nevertheless binds us all with its golden chain. Natures like those of Meta and honest Byarnie—who, be it remembered, are not creatures of the imagination, but true examples of a class—I have never met elsewhere.
The nearest approach to them in manners and ways of thinking, I have found in my own dear Highlands of Scotland.
Very many, both of the Norse, such as those met with in Shetland and Iceland, as well as our Highlanders, are very deeply imbued with the spirit and true sentiment of religion. It is part and parcel of their everyday existence. Religion is the weft in the beautiful web of such lives as these.