Note 48 — Chapter II · Local Customs—Civic, Aquatic, Ceremonial.
Reading edition
At funeral feasts it was an ancient custom in Iceland to leave the place of the dead man vacant.—See Gould’s “Curiosities of Olden Times,” p. 84.
Reading edition
At funeral feasts it was an ancient custom in Iceland to leave the place of the dead man vacant.—See Gould’s “Curiosities of Olden Times,” p. 84.