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160 Parish Priests of Iceland .
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education is maintained . With tha exception of these who inhabit the coast , in the vicinity of the great fishing stations , it is a rare thing to meet with an Icelander who is unable to read and write ; and who does not possess consider , able intelligence on all subjects to which his situation allows him access . The instruction of his children forms one of his stated ac ~ cupations ; and , while the little earthen hut which he inhabits is almost buried by the snows of winter , and darkness and desolation are spread universally around
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IWbiU * tion . Thyrill
Names of Persons . ifJorundr Girlasson Margaret Th < # r $ tendottir Gudrun Eiriksdottir Gudnin Grirnson Thorsdys Saemnsdottir Jarfruder Stefansdottir firistin Jonsdottir Waldi Stcrindcrson
~ iEUfli ^ ISitaalMm . Ag * *| * £ Conduct . Elder or 4 i Yea Yes Yes Well disposed Constable and clean Hi * Wife 52 do , do . do . Good character Daughter 19 do . do . do . a hopeful by a for- ^ mer hus-S band ervant 25 do . do . do . A faithful laman bourer li / faid ser- 42 do . do . do . Neat and vant faithful Her child 3 Female 8 — — — Tractable orphan child Male or- 6 — Tractable and phan obedient
AbUitim . Moderate Pioinly disposed Well-informed Has neglected his improrement and is therefore admonished Wcil-ine formed Finished her Catechism : to be confirmed Learning the Catechism .
The books in this house arc , The Old Psalm Book an 4 the New ; Vidalin ' s Sermons ; Vidalin ' s Doctrines of Religion ; Fast Sermons ; Seven Seimons ; Sturm ' s Meditations , translated into Icelandic ; Bible Extracts ; Bastholm ' s Religious Doctrine ; a Prayer Book ; and a New Testament belonging to the Church . L ^^^^ , _ . ^ j "
cc This table is extremely inter , esting in many points of view . Be . sides shewing the great attention of Mr . Hialtalin to the duties of hi * office , it exhibits also , in some degree , the chaiacter of the people , the importance they attach to moral dispositions , and the attention which is paid to education , even among the lower classes , p . 144 u 44 By this superintendence of the priests ( for the instance of Mr . H . is by no means singular , ) and the long-established habits of the peo . pie , a regular system of domestic
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1812, page 160, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1746/page/24/
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