More specifically, an obsolete http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... sight.html]400-year old law in the remote Westfjords region:
My favorite sentence from the Telegraph article:
--The Twisted One
"If you
wish to converse with me, define your
terms."
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Quote:The law, which applies only in Westfjords – a northern peninsula jutting out into the sea, and the most remote part of Iceland – dates back to 1615.
In that year Basque whalers ran aground in Strandir, in the far north of the Westfjords. The Westfjords sheriff at the time, Ari Magnusson, declared that any Basque people found in the Westfjords could be legally killed on the spot.
My favorite sentence from the Telegraph article:
Quote:"The decision to do away with the decree was more symbolic than anything else," said Jonas Gudmundsson, Westfjords district commissioner, when he officially repealed the law at the http://www.galdrasyning.is/]Museum of Icelandic Sorcery last month.
--The Twisted One
"If you
wish to converse with me, define your
terms."
--Voltaire