[263]. Hervarar Saga, 9, 10, 11, 12.
[264]. Kristnisaga, Fornmanna Sögur ii., 228.
[265]. I.e. Tun or open space.
[266]. Meaning, broke the backs of.
[267]. Not far from nearly every one of the (twenty) dom-rings of Nerike there is a spring tending to confirm the Icelandic tradition of their use.
[268]. King Olaf was on an expedition into France.
[269]. Odd evidently, like some other of his countrymen, as seen in this narrative, was not orthodox in the religion of his fathers, for he robbed the graves.
[270]. Cf. also Ragnar Lodbrók, 18; Norna Gest, 6; Olaf Tryggvason, 179; Sigurdar Kvida Fafnisbana ii., 26; Orkneyinga Saga, ch. 8.
[271]. Ynglinga Saga, 10.
[272]. Gisla Sursson mentions the same.