[83]. Son of a free woman begotten secretly.
[84]. Son of a free woman who has had no mund paid.
[85]. Kinsmen on the father’s side are preferred to kinsmen on the mother’s side.
[86]. A mörk was probably four ounces.
[87]. The Frostathing Laws give a general rule for the degrees in which inheritances descended. Kinsmen on the father’s side were preferred to those on the mother’s side.
[88]. Jardar = of earth, men = necklace. The name of jardarmen (a neck ring, necklace of earth (turf)) probably meant a loop, the turf being cut in a semi-circular shape, for any other form of strip could not well have been raised from the ground without breaking.
[89]. The Saga is called Fostbrædra Saga (Foster-brothers’ Saga) after them.
[90]. Cf. also Sturlaug Starfsami, c. 13, and Hord’s Saga, c. 12.
[91]. Another text adds: “Thorgeir said, ‘This was not seriously meant that we should try each other.’ Thormod answered: ‘It came across thy mind while thou saidst it, and we will part.’”
[92]. In the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg there is a short, double-edged sword, dug up in Southern Russia, the scabbard of which is entirely of gold.