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

[196]. Harald Hardradi, 70.

[197]. Fœreyinga, 41; Islendinga Sögur, ii. 250; Fostbrœdra, 164. A bad-stofa, or bath room, is mentioned. Eyrbyggja, Forn. Sögur, xiii. In St. Olaf’s Saga, 82, the stofa is said to be in the loft.

[198]. A house of the latter kind was also called málstofa (speaking-house) (Harald Hardradi’s Saga, c. 45).

[199]. Ingi’s Saga, 28; Egil’s Saga, 236; Njal,, 114, 199; Fms., 85; Ynglinga, St. Olaf, 116.

[200]. Magnus the Good’s Saga, c. 13.

[201]. Yngl. Saga, c. 14.

[202]. Ynglinga Saga, 34.

[203]. Pet name of Bödvar.

[204]. Cf. also Landnama, Part ii. 6.

[205]. Here the word möttul = mantle, the same garment which elsewhere is called skikkja.