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ARVALS, ARVELS

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 711 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ARVALS, ARVELS Or ARTHELS (0. Norse Arfr, See also:inheritance, and ol, AS. See also:Ale, a banquet), primarily the funeral See also:dinner, and later, especially in the See also:north of See also:England, a thin, See also:light, sweet cake, spiced with See also:cinnamon and See also:nutmeg, served to the poor at such feasts. The funeral See also:meal was called the Arvel-dinner. The See also:custom seems to have been to hold on such occasions an informai See also:inquest, when the See also:corpse was publicly exposed, to exculpate the See also:heir and those entitled to the See also:property of the dead from all accusations of foul See also:play.

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