Note 125 — Chapter II · THE MARK.
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The solemn apportionment of lands and dwellings is nowhere more obvious, or described in more instructive detail, than in Denmark. Norway and the Swedish borderlands may have offered more numerous instances of solitary settling. The manner of distributing the village land is called Sólskipt or Sólskipti: the provisions of this law are given by Grimm, Rechtsalt. p. 539. There is an interesting account of the formalities used upon the first colonization of Iceland, in Geijer, Hist. of Sweden, i. 159. (German translation of 1826.)