[436]. In Snorri the twenty horsemen are described thus: “Twenty horsemen of the Thingmannalid rode up in front of the array of the Northmen. They were armoured all over and also their horses. Then a horseman said: ‘Is Tosti jarl here in the host?’” (Snorri Sturluson, Harald Hardradi’s Saga, c. 9.)
From this we see that the English, like their kinsmen, had horsemen; and the finds of spurs, &c., prove this.
[437]. Meaning that if he had been known he would have been slain.
[438]. “One winter after the fall of King Harald (Hardradi) his body was brought from England north to Nidarós (Throndhjem) and buried in Maria Church, which he had built” (Harald Hardradi’s Saga, c. 104).
[439]. For the story of Flóki taking three ravens with him in order to guide him on his expedition to Iceland.
[440]. A lost Saga.
[441]. There is no account of Gunnbjorn’s journey.
[442]. Fourteenth century.
[443]. The laws were, according to Landnáma, enacted A.D. 1000.
[444]. Hafgerding = the walls of the ocean, monster waves on the ocean.