Several fragments of bronze plates covered with thin silver-foil, and of bronze mountings, and thin bronze wire; also lumps of melted bronze.
Three small fragments of bone; the largest piece has snake ornaments engraved on it.
[241]. In N. G. L. ii. 145, tar work on the place where tar is made is mentioned.
[242]. By Sudrriki seems to be meant the south of Europe.
[243]. Cf. also Fridthjof’s Saga, c. 11.
[244]. Hábrók is mentioned in the earlier Edda Grimnismal, 44, as “the best of hawks.”
[245]. Cf. also c. 44, ibid.
[246]. They had many kinds of dogs, some of which were very fierce. Irish sheep-dogs were known, and their value appreciated at a very early time by the Northmen, and there were penalties for killing dogs.
[247]. Lit. a strand-raid.
[248]. At the two ends of the cow-stall.