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Konungs skuggsjá - [10]
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[10], tr. Laurence Marcellus Larson, The king’s mirror (Speculum regale-Konungs skuggsjá) (1917).
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The country [Ireland] lies on that side of the world where heat and cold are so well tempered that the weather is never hot or very cold. For all through the winter the find their feed in the open, and the inhabitants wear almost no clothes there either in winter or in summer. And so holy is this land beyond all others that no venomous animal can exist there, either snake or toad. When such animals are brought in from other countries, they die as soon as they touch the bare earth or rock. And if wood, earth, or sand is taken from that country and brought to a land where venomous beasts are found, and the sand or earth is strewn around them where they lie, they will never be able to cross the circle but must remain within it and perish. In the same way, if you take a stick of wood which has come from the country of which we now speak and trace a circle around them with it by scratching the soil with the stick, they will soon all lie dead within the circle.
