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

[405]. Helgi.

[406]. Hawks as birds of prey.

[407]. Helgi.

[408]. We see it is so late that the eagles sit on the boughs for the night, &c. So they despair of Helgi’s coming.

[409]. One of the finest similes for sleep.

[410]. Here dis may be sister or guardian-spirit. Skjöldungs = kings.

[411]. The bondmaid calls Helgi and his men ghosts and fiends.

[412]. See description in Eyrbyggia. Each ghost was called by its name, and had to leave by the opposite door.

[413]. Cf. also Laxdæla, 24; Gretti, 34–37.

[414]. Snorri Harald Fairhair’s Saga, ch. 36.