[25] In the prose piece Frá dauði Sinfiötla (in the Older Edda) Sigmundr is said to have held territories in the land of the Franks.
[26] Hence many scholars regard him as a Visigoth.
[27] Tyrol is the scene of several of Dietrich's and Wolfdietrich's adventures; but generally it is the southern (Italian) part of that country.
[28] The poem on the battle of Maldon approximates much more closely than any other of this age to the spirit of the old poetry.
[29] The victories over the Saxons and Danes described in the Nibelungenlied and the Tháttr af Nornagesti have little in common and are scarcely to be regarded as an essential feature in the story of Sigurðr.
[30] Anastasius annos XXVII.... Ermanrici regis Gothorum a fratribus Hemido et Serilo et Adaccaro, quorum patrem interfecerat, amputatis manibus et pedibus turpiter, ut dignus erat, occisio (Mon. Germ., Scr. III p. 31).
[31] Ind. VII. Aetio et Studio coss. (A.D. 454): Attila rex Hunnorum Europae orbator prouinciae noctu mulieris manu cultroque confoditur. quidam uero sanguinis reiectione necatum perhibent.
[32] Excluding of course Thiðreks S. af Bern.