DAUGHTERS' INHERITANCE. 59 



If one of joint heirs had the right of odcd and the other not, 

 the former got his share of the inheritance in odals land, the 

 other in personal property. In case a son's son and daughter 

 inherited together, the former had the right of purchasing the 

 latter's share in the 6dal. 



Daughters always inherited certain things, such as article 

 of clothing, household goods, bedding, ornaments, &c. 



" This shall a daughter take in inheritance after her mother, 

 if her brother is alive : all clothes except cloaks (skikkja) of 

 gudvef (costly stuff), and all uncut clothes ; these her brother 

 owns. And of clothes the brother shall take gold-lace, if he 

 wants it ; but woven cloaks and all bed-hangings, and lace- 

 clothes (i.e. edged with lace), brocades and feather-clothes and 

 down-clothes, the daughter shall have. If a web is in the 

 loom, the son owns that which is woven, and the daughter 

 that which is not woven. The son owns all mats and bench- 

 clothes, fur-hoods and house-furniture ; the daughter owns the 

 bed-covers if her mother owned them, and the son if the father 

 owned them. The daughter owns five sheep, and all linen 

 and yarn, and five sheepskins with the wool on, and the geese, 

 and the son owns all the rest. The daughter owns all cloth- 

 chests, if her mother owned them. The daughter shall have 

 a cross or a brooch, whichever she may want ; or the best breast- 

 ornament, if it is not of gold but of silver ; and all brooches if 

 they weigh one eyrir or less, and are of silver and precious 

 stones. All vessels out of which women drink to each other 

 across the floor at home belong to the daughter, though they 

 are ornamented with silver. The son shall own the silver 

 vessels. The daughter shall have one washing-basin, unless 

 there be a chain between two, then she shall have both" 

 (Earlier Frostathings Law, ix. 9). 



If, during his lifetime, a father gave more property to one 

 of his sons than to another, such a gift was taken into con- 

 sideration at the division of the inheritance on the father's 

 death. 



" If a man gives more to one of his sons than to the other 

 then the latter shall take as much from the undivided property 

 as w r as given to the one that got more ; then they shall divide 

 equally all that is left " (Gulath., 129). 



The property of a foreigner who died in the country went 



