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

[406]. Northmandi; th is here in the place of the soft Icelandic d or ð.

[407]. This shows that Bretland must have been Wales.

[408]. Cf. also Egil’s Saga, c. 62.

[409]. = Ravaged.

[410]. In open shields, or the hollow of the shields; the rear.

[411]. Hönd = hand or arm.

[412]. Ground of the hood = forehead; its rocks = the eyebrows.

[413]. Brother inheriting brother.

[414]. This Hakon was a grandson of the great Hakon jarl.

[415]. The Thingamen seems to have been a kind of standing army, like the Væringians in Constantinople.