Note 421 — Chapter IV
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L. Lloyd, op. cit. pp. 261 sq. These springs are called "sacrificial fonts" (Offer källor) and are "so named because in heathen times the limbs of the slaughtered victim, whether man or beast, were here washed prior to immolation" (L. Lloyd, op. cit. p. 261).