Note 188 — SECTION V. ANTHROPOLOGY.

Thus Skyr is a congener of the Persian “Shír” and of the Slav Sir (cheese). The first stage is the “run-milk,” the second is the “hung-milk” (because suspended in a bag) of the Shetland Islands. Everywhere it is differently turned; by sour whey in Iceland, by buttermilk in Scotland, and by rennet and various plants in Asia and Africa. No milk-drinking nation drinks, as a rule, fresh milk. The Icelanders want the manifold preparations known to the Scoto-Scandinavian islands.