[44] Crantz's Greenland, vol. i, p. 264.
[45] Crantz's Greenland, p. 274.
[46] Ibid., p. 279.
[47] Hans Egede was a clergyman in priest's orders, and minister of the congregation at Vogen in the northern part of Norway, where he was highly esteemed and beloved. He spent fifteen years as a missionary in Greenland, and died at Copenhagen, 1758.
[48] The motto on the sword of Roger Guiscard was:
"Appulus et Calaber Siculus mihi Servit et Afer."
[49] See Laing's Heimskringla, vol. ii, p. 450. This refers to his swimming match with Kiarten the Icelander, in which the king was beaten.
[50] See Saga of Saint (not king) Olaf.
[51] Des Antiquaires du Nord, 1859.
[52] Ledehammer. The point of land near the house of Lede, just below Drontheim.