[vi] As if under the shadow of coming death.
[vii] The Viking ship of war, or "long ship".
[viii] The usual Scandinavian and Danish greeting: "Health".
[ix] After expulsion from his bishopric of York by King Egfrid.
[x] Mail shirt.
[xi] The fine allowed as penalty for killing an adversary in a quarrel, or by mischance. The penalty for wilful murder was death.
[xii] Nidring, niddering, or nithing, may be beet expressed by "worthless ". It was the extreme term of reproach to a Saxon.
[xiii] The "Lodbrokar-Quida", which is still in existence. By some authorities Ragnar is said to have been the father of Ingvar and Hubba, but the dates are most uncertain.
[xiv] "The Fates" of the Northern mythology.
[xv] St. Ansgar, or Ansgarius, built the first church in Denmark at Hedeby, now Slesvig, in 840 A.D.