The Viking Age. Volume 1 (of 2) / The early history, manners, and customs of the ancestors of the English-speaking nations

by Paul B. Du Chaillu

[313]. Vatnsdæla, 3, 10; Thorfin Karlsefni, 3; Orvar Odd, ch. 2, 3.

[314]. Helgi and Hróar had taken the names of Ham and Hrani.

[315]. This song is lost.

[316]. Cf. also Norna Gest’s Thatt. c. 3.

[317]. Laxdæla, 33; Njala, 127.

[318]. Orkneyinga, 100, 102; Ljosvetninga, 21; Vatnsdæla, 12; Orvar Odd, 2.

[319]. The name of Ægir is found in Helgi Hundingsbani i., st. 30: in Lokasenna; in Hymiskvida; that of Ran, in Helgi Hjorvardsson, 18; Helgi Hundingsbani, i. 3; Egil’s Saga, &c.

[320]. In poetry gold is often called Ægir’s fire, or Ran’s light, showing that belief in the old myth still existed.

[321]. Inheritance feast; see Vol. ii., p. [47].

[322]. He calls his son Bödvar a string of his family, made or twisted by himself.