Warder of horns' wave, [181]
PROVERBS AND PROVERBIAL SAYINGS THAT OCCUR IN THE STORY.
A friend should warn a friend of ill, [30]
Ale is another man, [55]
All must fare when they are fetched, [188]188
All things bide their day, [218]
All will come to an end, [233]
Bare is the back of the brotherless, [241]
Best to bairn is mother still, [41]
Bewail he, who brought the woe, [175]
Broad spears are about now, [133]
Deeds done will be told of, [224]
Even so shall bale be bettered by biding greater bale, [140]
For one thing alone will I not be known, [192]
From ill cometh ill, [105]
Good luck and goodliness are twain, [105]
Hand for wont doth yearn, [226]
Hottest is the fire that lies on oneself, [176]
Ill deed gains ill hap, [188]
Ill heed still to ill doth lead, [121]
Ill if a thrall is thine only friend, [240]
Ill it is ill to be, [165]
Ill it is to goad the foolhardy, [30]
Let one oak have what from the other it shaves, [67]
Little can cope with cunning of eld, [205]
Long it takes to try a man, [61]
Many a man lies hid within himself, [203]
Many a man stretches round the door to the lock, [86]
More one knows the more one tries, [30]
No man makes himself, [125]
[304] Now this, now that has strokes in his garth, [125]
Odd haps are worst haps, [37]
Oft a listening ear in the holt is anear, [173]
Oft fail in wisdom folk of better trust, [32]
Old friends are the last to sever, [240]
One may be apaid of a man's aid, [44]
Overpraised, and first to fail, [132]
Sooth is the sage's guess, [92]
Swear loud and say little, [266]
The lower must lowt, [267]
The nigher the call, the further the man, [211]
Things boded will happen, so will things unboded, [32]
Though the spoon has taken it up, yet the mouth has had no sup, [168]
Thralls wreak themselves at once, dastards never, [35]
Thrice of yore have all things happed, [262]
To the goat-house for wool, [226]
With hell's man are dealings ill, [176]
Woe is before one's own door when it is inside one's neighbour's, [105]
FOOTNOTES:
Such as 'Burnt Njal,' Edinburgh, 1861, 8vo, and 'Gisli the Outlaw,' Edinburgh, 1866, 4to, by Dasent; the 'Saga of Viga-Glum,' London, 1866, 8vo, by Sir E. Head; the 'Heimskringla,' London, 1844, 8vo, by S. Laing; the 'Eddas,' Prose by Dasent, Stockholm, 1842; Poetic by A.S. Cottle, Bristol, 1797, and Thorpe, London and Halle, 1866; the 'Three Northern Love Stories,' translated by Magnússon and Morris, London, 1875, and 'The Volsunga Saga,' translated by the same, London, 1870.