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

by Paul B. Du Chaillu

Hlöd was then born

In Húnaland,

With sax and sword,

With a long brynja,

With a ring-adorned helmet,

With a sharp sword (mækir),

With a well-broken horse

On the holy field.”[^[69]]

(Hervarar Saga, c. 13.)

When a child cut his first tooth it was the custom to give him a present.