[303]. Leiptr = flash of lightning. Probably this was a swift river, or waterfall.
[304]. Here we see the custom of wergild, so often described in the Sagas.
[305]. The temple of Vandil.
[306]. Valleys of fight.
[307]. Cf. also Helga Kvida Hjörvardsonar.
[308]. The song of Kara is lost. Svafa in the first song, Sigrun in the second, is Svafa reborn; and Kara in the third and lost song is Sigrun reborn.
[309]. In Orvar Odd we see that the Volvas performed the foretelling ceremony with fifteen boys and fifteen girls. It seems that night was the chosen time. The boys and girls doubtless stood in a ring round the platform, and sang incantations. They had a stick, with which they struck the cheek of a man, and brought oblivion on him, and then, by striking him on the other cheek, gave him back his memory.
[310]. Eirik the red, 5.
[311]. Boiling “seid,” or the witches’ broth, was the chief art in witchcraft.
[312]. Only found in Thorfin Karlsefni.