[ 17 1 did not chufe to fee the dear fruits of their mu- tual love pining and ftarving before their eyesj they were obliged to fell their children to a pur- chafer, who had it in his power to preferve the lives of thefe unhappy vi&ims, though at the expence of their liberty *. From the fcarcity, fo frequent in thefe times, originated a law, which was- paired by the re- public of Iceland f, which had not the lead refpedt * Vita Sanfti Juniani apudLabbe in Bibliotheca Manufc. t. ii. p. 573. Cumque puer velcciter juffa patris expleilit renuntiavit patri dicens. Mulier paupercula adeft, cui et panis deficit, nec unde emat, habet quo audito juffit earn in confpe&u fuo adftare, hilari vultu et paterno affeftu in- terrogans, cur tanto ejulatu fleret, et clamoribus euro in- quietaret ? At ilia refpondet : Veri dei famulse et facerdos, fcias me fame periclitari, Panis deeit, emptio nulla, fames quotidie invalefcit, et ecce prtegnans morior, quamobrem tuam ad vi clementiam, ut ii me de pexiculo famis eripueris, fim tibi perpetuo ancilla, et filius, quem utero gefto fervus fempitcrnus, quem cum enutriero, tuis manibus, etjugiter fervire initituam, tantum adjuva ne peream. f The law of the Republic of Iceland, called Gragaas, in the Book relative to the poor, c. i. lit. “ Be it enafted, That the fon maintain his mother “ in preference to his other relations. 2d. “ That he fupport his kindred, as long as he can af- “ ford it, in the following order ; firil his father, then his “ own children, and next after them his couiins. “ That the claims ofhis other kindred be relative to his right B “ of

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