[Page 78, line 20]. Olaf, like all Christians at that time, thought Odin to be an evil spirit.
[Page 78, line 27]. A war-arrow was furnished with a cord or twist of withy at one end, and was intended to summon all men armed to a Thing.
[Page 82, line 8]. ‘Ship-corner,’ a little creek of the river Nid, at the end of the present Strand Gade in Trondhjem.
[Page 82, line 13]. This barrow, Skjeggehaugen, existed at the beginning of the nineteenth century; it was situated to the south of the farm of ‘Östraat’ (Austrat).
[Page 91, line 33]. Svirar: what these were is not known; they must have been at the stern of the ship.
[Page 93, line 16]. September 29, 999.
[Page 94, line 3]. I.e., in christening raiment, which was worn for a week after baptism.
[Page 100, line 31]. The town of Ladoga; it was situated at that time on the river Volkhov which debouches into the lake of Ladoga.
[Page 101, line 8]. The island of Ösel was named in Old-Norse Ey-Sysla (island district) and the mainland opposite Adal-Sysla (chief district), and the whole of Estland (or Esthonia) together Sysla.
[Page 101, line 32]. This is incorrect. Gunnhild was put away by King Svein and sent home to Wendland; after the death of Svein in 1014 her sons had her brought back to Denmark.