This curious name of Heimskringla was given to the work because it contains the words with which begins, and means literally _the circle of the world_ .-- ED.] {40} A translation of this poem will be found in the Appendix.

[Not included in this Gutenberg eText--DP] {41} In Iceland, as in Denmark, it is the custom to keep the dead a week above ground.

It may be readily imagined that to a non-Icelandic sense of smell, it is an irksome task to be present at a burial from beginning to end, and especially in summer.

But I will not deny that the continued sensation may have partly proceeded from imagination.
{42} Every one in Iceland rides.
{43} I cannot forbear mentioning a curious circumstance here.

When I was at the foot of Mount Etna in 1842, the fiery element was calmed; some months after my departure it flamed with renewed force.