[9] Dicuil, the Irish chronicler, was greatly impressed by the long Arctic days of summer.
[10] Libellus Islandorum, VI. 1.
[11] It is printed in full in Origines Islandicæ, by Gudbrand Vigfusson and F. York Powell, an extremely useful work, to which I am greatly beholden.
[12] An excellent account of the constitution of the Republic is given in James Bryce's Studies in History and Jurisprudence, 1901.
[13] Njals Saga, translated by Sir George Webbe Dasent, D.C.L.
[14] The lower house is elected by Icelandic males, aged over twenty-five, paying 8kr. a year in direct taxes, who are their own masters—a rather restricted suffrage—the upper house is partly nominated, partly chosen by the lower.
[15] Landnama-bok, VI. 1.
[16] ib. XIV., 13.
[17] Cristne Saga, VIII. 8.
[18] Liber Islandorum, X., 3.