[Footnote 23:] On the Danish Ballads (Scottish Historical Review, Vol. i, No. 4, July, 1904), p. 362.
[Footnote 24:] A Tour through Orkney and Schetland in 1774, Kirkwall, 1879. Cf. also Preface to Sörla Tháttr, p. 39 ff. above.
[Footnote 25:] Ib., p. 105 ff.
[Footnote 26:] The Vyse, be it observed, is the Danish word most commonly used to denote a ballad. The Faroese use Kvæði, and less frequently Ríma.
[Footnote 27:] For an account of the Scandinavian settlements on the Bristol Channel, cf. A. Bugge, Contributions to the History of the Norsemen in Ireland, No. III, published in Videnskabsselskabet i Christiania, Historisk-filosofisk Klasse, 11, 1900.
[Footnote28:] Axel Olrik, Introduction to Danske Folkeviser í Udvalg, 3rd ed. (Copenhagen and Christiania, 1913), p. 40 ff. Cf. also Steenstrup, Vore Folkeviser (Copenhagen, 1891), ch. VII.
[Footnote 29:] On the literary sources of the Faroese ballads, cf. Steenstrup, op. cit. Introduction.
[Footnote 30:] Lied und Epos (Dortmund, 1915), p. 19.
[Footnote 31:] On the History of the Ballads, 1100-1500, published in Proceedings of the British Academy for 1902-1910, p. 202.
[Footnote 32:] On the History of the Ballads, etc., p. 202.