[* 93 ] In confeqtience of this wife law, a regular trade of inclofers was eftablilhed and carried on till the fourteenth century. From that period, during the Courfe of almoft five centuries, the inclofures have moulded away and been totally neglefted, till the hufbandry of Iceland got new patrons in a Steman, a Reventlou, a Schim- melman, an Erichfen, and a 1 odahl. P. 17. Aprefent of a gold ring on the appearance of the firjl tooth of d child. The northern nations, well acquainted with the danger to which children are fub- jedted during the courfe of teething, were extremely anxious to perpetuate the emotions of their joy on having had the gratification to fee that their children have got teeth; and this they did by making them fome valuable prefents, which were called tanfe, i. c. the gift of teeth. This cuftom, frequent among our heathen anceftors, gave birth to donations made by parents and godfathers to children, on occafion of their being baptifed. As a remnant of the faid cuftom we may confider the prefents which are laid upon the cradle, and intended as a premium to the nurfe for her care and tendernefs. P. 19. Harald Graf eld, fon to Harald the Hairfair, fucceeded his brother Fla- con, the fofter-fon of Athelftan, king of England, to the kingdom of Norway, in the year of Chrift 950, and died in the year 962. Gunnild, daughter of Auzor Tota, was queen dowager of Norway, and mother of many princes, fons to Flarald the Hairfair. She is particularly known by the Icelandic writers under the name of konga moder, or the mother of kings. She was fickle, inconftant, faithlefs, revengeful, malicious, reftrained by no principle of duty, infatiable in her pretenfions; and fhe was never deterred from employing the xnoft criminal, and moft diflionourable expedients. In fhort, her ambitious and defpotic principles were as reftlefs, as her amours were unbounded. See Snorro Sturlefon, in the life of Harald Grafeld, and Olaf Tryggvafon, kings of Nor- way. Copenhagen, 1775. Saga Olafs Tryggvafonar, Skalholte, 1689. Nialfaga, Copenh. 1772, p. 5. & leqq. Rut, or Hrut, an Icelandic nobleman, of Rutftad in the county of Laxardal, was defcended by males from llagnar Lodbrok, king of Denmark. He was diftinguifhed by many eminent gifts of nature. In his perfonal qualities he was courteous, affable, engaging, full of infinuation and addrefs, adtive, and enterprizing; and he had the mafterly prudence to elude fome artful fchemes devifed by Gunnild, the queen dowager of Norway, whofe love intrigues might have been equally ruinous to himfelf and his native country. P. 23. . ‘The king and queen promifed to Jhade him with their aufpices, i. e. to aid and alfift him by tlieir genius and royal fortune. Our anceftors, following the opi- nion of Pythagoras and Plato, imagined that every perfon had a certain number of tutelar fpirits, which the Greeks called Damonas, and the Romans Genii ; and that ©a thefe beings depended their fate and fortune. Of all thefe Genii none was more A a obliging

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