[2] Academy, 1896, I 137; cf. Brandl, op. cit., p. 1085.
[3] This remark applies more especially to the poems on Brunanburh and Maldon in the later group.
[4] Saxo Poeta, who wrote about 890, speaks of uulgaria carmina which celebrated Pippinos Carolos Hludowicos et Theodricos et Carlomannos Hlothariosque (Mon. Germ., Script. I 268). But it is usually held that these words are due to a mistaken inference from Einhard, whose work he was using.
[5] Origo Gentis Langobardorum (Mon. Germ., Script. Rerum Langobard., p. 2 f.); Paulus Diaconus, Hist. Lang. I 8.
[6] Cf. Kögel, Geschichte d. deutschen Litteratur, I p. 115 ff.
[7] The poems were not all composed in Iceland. Many of the earliest doubtless came from Norway, others perhaps from the British Isles, while others again are referred to Greenland.
[8] Called a dragon (dreki) in Völsunga Saga.
[9] Helreið Brynh. (str. 7 ff.) and the prose versions (Skaldsk. 41, Völs. S. 20). It is a much debated question whether the two are identified also in Fáfnismál, str. 40 ff. In Grípisspá they seem clearly to be separated.
[10] The death of Svanhildr is mentioned also in Sigurðarkviða II, where it is attributed (as in the prose authorities) to the evil counsel of a certain Bikki, an adviser of Iörmunrekr.
[11] Fornaldar Sögur Norðrlanda, I p. 391 ff.