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

[187]. The sal is also called Disarsal, a building for sacrifices to the Disir.

[188]. Cf. also Heimskringla.

[189]. “The land-owner shall pay the value of the land at the Karldyr (men’s door).” Gragas ii.

[190]. Bodyguard.

[191]. Cf. also Njala, 117.

[192]. The banqueting halls were called veitsluskali.

[193]. Njala 120; Fornmanna Sögur.

[194]. The skali is often called the drinking or the sleeping skali. Orkneyinga, 18, 70, 115; Gisli Sursson, 29; Droplaugarsona Saga, 18, 28; Fornmanna Sögur, i. 288, 292; Kormak, 58; Fostbrœdra, 13; Njala, 78; Gunnlaug, XI.

The eldhús meant a hall or chief room, where fires were kept. Gisli Sursson, 14, 15, 97; Eyrbyggja, 98; Laxdæla, 54.

[195]. Dyngja—cf. Egil, 159; Gisli Sursson, 15; Njal, 66; Kormak, 10; Bjorn Hitdk, 68. Skemma—Fœreyinga, 259; Gisli Sursson, 7; Kormak, 228; Islendinga Sögur, ii. 28. Herbergi seems to have been a general term for any kind of room.