[44] Deuteron. xxi. 4-8.

[45] Pausan. III. xx. 9.

[46] Islands Landnamabok IV. 7; II. 9 (Ed. 1774, pp. 299, 83).

[47] Keyser’s Religion of the Northmen, Pennock’s Translation, p. 238.

[48] Gen. xv. 9-17.—Jer. xxxiv. 18-19.—I. Kings, viii. 31-2.—Chrysost. Orat. adv. Jud. I. 3.

[49] Anastas. Biblioth. No. LXII.

[50] Ecgberti Dialog. IV. (Haddan and Stubbs’s Councils of Great Britain, III. 405).

[51] Gregor. Turon. Hist. Lib. V. cap. xlix. Gregory complains that this was contrary to the canons, of which more hereafter.

[52] Dooms of Alfred, cap. 33.

[53] Dimetian Code, Bk. II. chap. vi. § 17 (Owen, I. 431).