[43]. Riant, Expéditions et Pèlerinages des Scandinaves en Terre Sainte, 440-441.
[44]. Rabanus Maurus died in 856.
[45]. Nansen, In Northern Mists, II, 242.
[46]. Nansen, In Northern Mists, II, 243.
[47]. Ibid. “If we make allowance for three of them being probably sharks and for two being perhaps alternative names for the same whale, the total corresponds to the number of species that are known in northern waters.”
[48]. Ibid. This “corresponds to the number of species living on the coasts of Norway and Greenland.”
[49]. Cc. xii, xvi.
[50]. Hákonar Saga, c. 322.
[51]. Giraldus, Opera, V, 62-64; King’s Mirror, c. x.
[52]. Topographia Hibernica, iii, c. 28; King’s Mirror, c. x.