sacrosanctity

Updated: June 9, 2025

It is easy to see that when this custom came into conflict with the son's natural desire to inherit, the sacrosanctity of the dead man's treasure and of his burial-mound would be their only protection against violation.

L. Winifred Faraday - The Edda, Volume 2: The Heroic Mythology of the North, Popular Studies in Mythology,: Romance, and Folklore, No. 13