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● Transcriber’s Notes:
○ The Errata was applied to the text. The corrections made are as
follows:
▪ Page lxxix.—For “Há Kirkiu”, read “Há Kirkia”.
▪ Page 44.—For “She was married to Kolbein Hruga, read “She was
the mother of Hakon Barn and of Herborg, who was married to
Kolbein Hruga.”
▪ Page 135.—After “Verbon”, read “(Nerbon).”
▪ Page Footnote 1 on p. 157 (footnote 403).—For “Corness”, read
“Carness”.
▪ Page Footnote 1 on p. 192 (footnote 449).—For “death”, in Note
1, read “divorce”.

○ Missing or obscured punctuation was silently corrected.
○ Typographical errors were silently corrected.
○ Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation were made consistent only
when a predominant form was found in this book.
○ Text that was in italics is enclosed by underscores (_italics_);
text that was bold by “equal” signs (=bold=).