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

IX paces did Thor go from the Midgard’s serpent and die.

IX paces are red-hot irons carried (Fornmanna Sögur, i.).

IX red-hot plough-shares are stepped upon (Fornmanna Sögur, vii. 164, x. 418).

[228]. The S sign is also common, especially in the bronze age.

[229]. A kind of trinity of the higher deities is represented in Persia, India, Chaldæa, and other countries.

[230]. Cf. also Njala, cc. 44, 53.

[231]. Cf. also Njala, cc. 44, 53, 111; Ragnar Lodbrok.

[232]. Cf. also Vatnsdæla, c. 22.

[233]. Orkneyinga Saga.

[234]. Cf. also c. 21.