Beowulf: An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn

by R. W. Chambers

[494] Ayres in J.E.G.Ph. XVI, 288.

[495] e.g. Njáls Saga, cap. 144: Laxdæla Saga, cap. 51.

[496] Of course a primitive stage can be conceived at which homicide is regarded as worse than murder. Your brother shoots A intentionally: he must therefore have had good reasons, and you fraternally support him. But you may feel legitimate annoyance if he aims at a stag, and shooting A by mere misadventure, involves you in a blood-feud.

[497] Heimskringla, Ól. Tryggv. K. 111; Saga Olafs Tryggvasonar, K. 70 (Fornmanna Sǫgur, 1835, X.)

[498] Saxo Grammaticus (ed. Holder, p. 67).

[499] Heimskringla, Ól. Tryggv. K. 41.

[500] lýsti vígi á hendr sér. Laxdæla Saga, cap. 49.

[501] Cap. 55.

[502] Cap. 85.

[503] Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, anno 755.