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to sunset; therefore Thorgerd led her heifer from Thoptufell, 

 near Kvia, southwards to Kidjaklett at Jokulsfell " (Landnama, 

 Pt. iv., c. 10). 



"Those who came out later thought the first comers had 

 taken too much land, and on that account King Harald 

 Fairhair established a law that no one should take up more 

 land than he could walk over with fire in one day with his 

 ship-companions. They were to light fires when the sun was 

 in the east, which were to burn until night ; then they were 

 to walk until the sun was in the west and make other fires ; 

 the smoke was to be seen from the one fire to the other '' 

 (Landnama, v., c. 1). 



