[333]. Other texts—Raum and his kinsmen were tall and ugly.
[334]. Cf. Gisli Sursson, 22, 24, 30, 33; Half’s Saga, 15; Grimnismal, 53; Atlamal, 23. Fylgjas appeared to people in dreams: Ljósvetninga, 21; Atlamal, 19; Njal, 12.
[335]. See Vol. ii., p. [423].
[336]. A kind of duel. See p. [563].
[337]. The worship of the Lares and Penates, the household deities who watched over the personal and pecuniary interests of individuals and families, was the most prominent feature of the Etruscan mythology, whence it was borrowed by the Romans. Thence it was also, in all probability, that the Romans obtained their doctrine of an attendant genius watching over every individual from his birth. (See Dennis’s ‘Etruria,’ vol. i., p. 59.)
[338]. (1) Viga Glum, 9; (2) Laxdæla, 26; Snorri, St. Olaf, 68.
[339]. The eagles dreamt of by Angantyr were thought to be the fylgjas of champions (Hervarar Saga, c. 5).
Thorstein Vikingsson saw in the many bears which attacked him a foreboding of a king or a king’s son (Gautrek and Hrolf’s Saga; Thorstein Vikingsson, c. 12).
Thus also Geitir guessed the birth of Thorstein Uxafot from the white bear cub, which he had observed walking ahead of the latter.
[340]. Njala, 12; Finnbogi Rammi’s Saga; Fornmanna Sögur, iii. They are seen in a walking state. Viga Glum’s Saga; Halfred’s Saga, 22, 24; Vatnsdæla, p. 36; Atlamal, 19; Egil’s Saga, 50, 60; Sögubrot, 2.