[Footnote 5:] Op. cit., p. lxxxviii.
[Footnote 6:] See Fornaldarsögur Northrlanda (Reykjavík, 1891), Vol. i, pp. 247-266.
[Footnote 7:] The second edition follows the Codex Regius in the text of the poems included in the Tháttr more closely than did the first edition.
[Footnote 8:] Cf. Finnur Jónsson, Den Oldnorske og Oldislandske Litteraturs Historie, Vol. ii, p. 847; also Mogk, Norwegisch-Isländischen Literatur (Strassburg, 1904), p. 822.
[Footnote 9:] Cf. p. 19 below and note (p. 222).
[Footnote 10:] Cf. Skáldskaparmál, ch. 3; also Hrólfs Saga Kraka, ch. 42.
THE THÁTTR OF NORNAGEST[°]
I.[°] The story goes that on one occasion when King Olaf Tryggvason was living at Trondhjem, it chanced that a man came to him late in the day and addressed him respectfully. The King welcomed him and asked him who he was, and he said that his name was Guest.