[514]. Cfr. also Frostathing’s Law, i. 2.
[515]. Laws by King Magnus, A.D. 1263–1280.
[516]. Grágás, 56.
[517]. Islendingabók, c. 5.
[518]. Eyrbyggja, c. 10; Landnáma, ii. c. 12.
[519]. A Thing held on the plain.
[520]. The Saga was about Thorgeir Hávarsson, Thormod’s foster-brother, and his last fight, in which Thorgrim had fought against him. Thormod cleft Thorgrim’s head with his axe as he sat on the chair, and escaped.
[521]. Pitched a tent over the walls which remained standing.
[522]. The term “hundreds” means some value, perhaps of vadmal or of silver.
[523]. Twenty feet of vadmal were paid yearly by each bondi who did not go to the Thing to those who went to the Althing (Grágás, 77, 107).