Chapter X: Part 10

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"Well, I would fain risk it," said he; and therewithal he got on to his feet and stood in the slough. She made as if she were sore afeard of his carrying her, yet nathless she went on, borne on his back; and he staggered along exceeding slowly, going on two crutches, and when he got midmost of the slough he began to reel from side to side. She bade him gather up his strength.

"Never shalt thou have made a worse journey than this if thou easiest me down here."

Then the poor wretch staggers on, and gathers up all his courage and strength, and gets close to the dry land, but stumbles withal, and falls head-foremost in such wise, that he cast her on to the bank, but fell into the ditch up to his armpits, and therewithal as he lay there caught at the goodwife, and gat no firm hold of her clothes, but set his miry hand on her knee right up to the bare thigh.

She sprang up and cursed him, and said that ever would evil come from wretched gangrel churles: "and thy full due it were to be beaten, if I thought it not a shame, because of thy misery."

Then said he, "Meted in unlike ways is man's bliss; me-thought I had done well to thee, and I looked for an alms at thy hands, and lo, in place thereof, I get but threats and ill-usage and no good again withal;" and he made as if he were exceeding angry.

Many deemed that he looked right poor and wretched, but she said that he was the wiliest of old churles; but whereas many prayed for him, she took her purse to her, and therein was many a penny of gold; then she shook down the money and said,

"Take thou this, carle; nowise good were it, if thou hadst not full pay for the hard words thou hadst of me; now have I parted with thee, even according to thy worth."

Then he picked up the gold, and thanked her for her good deed. Spes went to the church, and a great crowd was there before her. Sigurd pushed the case forward eagerly, and bade her free herself from those charges he had brought against her.

She said, "I heed not thy charges; what man dost thou say thou hast seen in my chamber with me? Lo now oft it befalls that some worthy man will be with me, and that do I deem void of any shame; but hereby will I swear that to no man have I given gold, and of no man have I had fleshly defilement save of my husband, and that wretched staff-carle who laid his miry hand on my thigh when I was borne over the slough this same day."

Now many deemed that this was a full oath, and that no shame it was to her, though the carle had laid hand on her unwittingly; but she said that all things must be told even as they were.

Thereafter she swore the oath in such form as is said afore, and many said thereon that she showed the old saw to be true, swear loud and say little. But for her, she said that wise men would think that this was not done by guile.

Then her kin fell to saying that great shame and grief it was for high-born women to have such lying charges brought against them bootless, whereas it was a crime worthy of death if it were openly known of any woman that she had done whoredoms against her husband. Therewithal Spes prayed the bishop to make out a divorce betwixt her and her husband Sigurd, because she said she might nowise bear his slanderous lying charges. Her kinsfolk pushed the matter forward for her, and so brought it about by their urgency that they were divorced, and Sigurd got little of the goods, and was driven away from the land withal, for here matters went as is oft shown that they will, and the lower must lowt; nor could he bring aught about to avail him, though he had but said the very sooth.

Now Spes took to her all their money, and was deemed the greatest of stirring women; but when folk looked into her oath, it seemed to them that there was some guile in it, and were of a mind that wise men must have taught her that way of swearing; and men dug out this withal, that the staff-carle who had carried her was even Thorstein Dromund. Yet for all that Sigurd got no righting of the matter.

CHAP. XCIII.

Thorstein and Spes come out to Norway.

Thorstein Dromund was with the Varangians while the talk ran highest about these matters; so famed did he become that it was deemed that scarce had any man of the like prowess come thither; the greatest honours he gat from Harald Sigurdson, for he was of his kin; and after his counsels did Thorstein do, as men are minded to think.

But a little after Sigurd was driven from the land, Thorstein fell to wooing Spes to wife, and she took it meetly, but went to her kinsmen for rede; then they held meetings thereon, and were of one accord that she herself must rule the matter; then was the bargain struck, and good was their wedded life, and they were rich in money, and all men deemed Thorstein to be a man of exceeding good luck, since he had delivered himself from all his troubles.

The twain were together for two winters in Micklegarth, and then Thorstein said to his goodwife that he would fain go back to see his possessions in Norway. She said he should have his will, so they sold the lands they had there, and gat them great wealth of chattels, and then betook them from that land, with a fair company, and went all the way till they came to Norway. Thorstein's kin welcomed them both right heartily, and soon saw that Spes was bountiful and high-minded, and she speedily became exceeding well befriended. Some children they had between them, and they abode on their lands, and were well content with their life.

In those days was Magnus the Good king over Norway. Thorstein soon went to meet him, and had good welcome of him, for he had grown famous for the avenging of Grettir the Strong (for men scarce know of its happening that any other Icelander, save Grettir Asmundson, was avenged in Micklegarth); and folk say that Thorstein became a man of King Magnus, and for nine winters after he had come to Norway he abode in peace, and folk of the greatest honour were they deemed, he and his wife.

Then came home from Micklegarth king Harald Sigurdson, and King Magnus gave him half Norway, and they were both kings therein for a while; but after the death of King Magnus many of those who had been his friends were ill-content, for all men loved him; but folk might not abide the temper of King Harald, for that he was hard and was wont to punish men heavily.

But Thorstein Dromund was fallen into eld, though he was still the halest of men; and now was the slaying of Grettir Asmundson sixteen winters agone.

CHAP. XCIV.

Thorstein Dromund and Spes leave Norway again.

At that time many urged Thorstein to go meet King Harald, and become his man; but he took not kindly to it.

Then Spes spake, "I will, Thorstein," says she, "that thou go not to meet Harald the king, for to another king have we much more to pay, and need there is that we turn our minds to that; for now we both grow old and our youth is long departed, and far more have we followed after worldly devices, than the teaching of Christ, or the ways of justice and uprightness; now wot I well that this debt can be paid for us neither by our kindred or our goods, and I will that we ourselves should pay it: now will I therefore that we change our way of life and fare away from this land and unto the abode of the Pope, because I well believe that so only may my case be made easy to me."

Thorstein said, "As well known to me as to thee are the things thou talkest of; and it is meet that thou have thy will herein, since thou didst ever give me my will, in a matter of far less hope; and in all things will we do as thou biddest."

This took men utterly unawares; Thorstein was by then sixty-seven years of age, yet hale in all wise.

So now he bid to him all his kindred and folk allied to him, and laid before them the things he had determined on. Wise men gave good words thereto, though they deemed of their departing as of the greatest loss.

But Thorstein said that there was nought sure about his coming back: "Now do I give thanks to all of you," says he, "for the heed ye paid to my goods when I was last away from the land; now I will offer you, and pray you to take to you my children's havings, and my children, and bring them up according to the manliness that is in you; for I am fallen so far into eld that there is little to say as to whether I may return or not, though I may live; but ye shall in such wise look after all that I leave behind me here, even as if I should never come back to Norway."

Then men answered, that good redes would be plenteous if the housewife should abide behind to look after his affairs; but she said--

"For that cause did I come hither from the out-lands, and from Micklegarth, with Thorstein, leaving behind both kin and goods, for that I was fain that one fate might be over us both; now have I thought it good to be here; but I have no will to abide long in Norway or the North-lands if he goes away; ever has there been great love betwixt us withal, and nought has happed to divide us; now therefore will we depart together, for to both of us is known the truth about many things that befell since we first met."

So, when they had settled their affairs in this wise, Thorstein bade chosen folk divide his goods into halves; and his kin took the half which his children were to own, and they were brought up by their father's kin, and were in aftertimes the mightiest of men, and great kin in the Wick has come from them. But Thorstein and Spes divided their share of the goods, and some they gave to churches for their souls' health, and some they took with them. Then they betook themselves Romeward, and many folk prayed well for them.

CHAP. XCV.

How Thorstein Dromund and Spes fared to Rome and died there.

Now they went their ways till they came to Rome-town; and so when they came before him, who was appointed to hear the shrifts of men, they told him well and truly all things even as they had happed, and with what cunning and craft they had joined together in wedlock; therewithal they gave themselves up with great humility to such penance for the amending of their lives as he should lay on them; but because that they themselves had turned their minds to the atoning of their faults, without any urging or anger from the rulers of the church, they were eased of all fines as much as might be, but were bidden gently that they should now and henceforth concern themselves reasonably for their souls' health, and from this time forward live in chastity, since they had gotten them release from all their guilt; and herewith they were deemed to have fared well and wisely.

Then said Spes, "Now, meseems, our matters have gone well and are come to an end, and no unlucky life have we had together; yet maybe fools will do after the pattern of our former life; now therefore let us make such an end to all, that good men also may follow after us and do the like: so let us go bargain with those who are deft in stone-craft; that they make for each of us a cell of stone, that we may thereby atone for what we have done against God."

So Thorstein laid down money for the making of a stone cell for each of them, and for such-like other things as they might need, and might not be without for the keeping of their lives; and then, when the stone work was done, and the time was meet therefor and all things were ready, they departed their worldly fellowship of their own free will, that they might the more enjoy a holy fellowship in another world. And there they abode both in their stone cells, and lived as long as God would have it, and so ended their lives. And most men say that Thorstein Dromund and Spes his wife may be deemed to be folk of the greatest good luck, all things being accounted of; but neither his children or any of his issue have come to Iceland for a tale to be made of them.

Now Sturla the Lawman says so much as that he deems no outlawed man ever to have been so mighty as Grettir the Strong; and thereto he puts forth three reasons--

And first in that he was the wisest of them all; for the longest in outlawry he was of any man, and was never won whiles he was hale.

And again, in that he was the strongest in all the land among men of a like age; and more fitted to lay ghosts and do away with hauntings than any other.

And thirdly, in that he was avenged out in Micklegarth, even as no other man of Iceland has been; and this withal, that Thorstein Dromund, who avenged him, was so lucky a man in his last days.

So here ends the story of Grettir Asmundson, our fellow-countryman. Thank have they who listened thereto; but thank little enow to him who scribbled out the tale.

GOOD PEOPLE, HERE THE WORK HATH END:
MAY ALL FOLK TO THE GOOD GOD WEND!

NOTES AND CORRECTIONS.

P. 29. The genealogy of Gamli of Meals, as here recorded, seems to be peculiar to Grettir's saga. Yet its statements are inconsistent in the matter, for it gives this twofold genealogy of the man. See Ed. Kaupmannahöfn: 1853.

P. 22. Ranveig was the wife of Gamli, the son of Thorald, the son of the Vendlander.

P. 70. And (Thorir of the Pass) sold the land at Meals to Thorhalli, son of Gamli the Widelander. His son was Gamli, who had to wife Ranveig, the daughter of Asmund Greyhaired.

According to 'Landnáma,' this Gamli of Meals, Asmund's son-in-law, was son of Thord, and great-great-grandson of Thorhrolf or Thorolf Fasthaldi (Fastholding), who settled lands on the north coast of Icefirth-deep (Isafjartðardjúp), and farmed at Snowfells (Snaefjöll). We have given Thorhall in our translation in both places as the man's name. Perhaps Thoraldr is nothing but a corruption of Thorólfr fasthaldi; and Thorhalli again a corruption of the first. But Gamli the Vendlander or Widelander, we have no means of identifying.

P. 30. 'Now in those times there were wont to be large fire-halls at the homesteads.' The hall, holl, skáli, stofa, was the principal room in every home. Elda-skáli, or fire-hall, as the one alluded to at Biarg, was so called from its serving as a cooking-hall and a sitting-hall at once. The main features in the construction of a hall were the following: it was generally built from east to west, in an oblong form, having doors either at one or both ends through the south-side wall, where it met the gable end. These two entrances were called carles'-door and queens'-door (karldyrr, kvenndyrr), being respectively for the ingress and egress of men and women. Sometimes the men's-door was adorned with the beaks (brandar) of a hewn-up ship, as was the case with the hall of Thorir of Garth, standing as door-posts on either side. The door led to a front-hall (forkáli, fortofa, and-dyri, framhús), which, sometimes at least, seems to have been portioned off into an inner room (klefi), or bay, and the vestibule proper. In the bay were kept victuals, such as dried fish, flour, and sometimes, no doubt, beer. Within, the hall fell into three main portions: the main hall, or the nave, and the aisles on either side thereof (skot): The plan of the hall was much like that of one of our regular-built churches without chancel, say like a Suffolk church of the fifteenth century, the nave being lighted by a clerestory, and the aisles running the whole way along the nave, and communicating behind the dais. These aisles were used for sleeping-places; so that along the whole length of the hall, and behind the dais, all was partitioned into bedsteads, open or locked,--open, that is to say, communicating with the nave by a doorless aperture,--locked, that is, shut out of view from the nave (lok-rekkja, lok-hvila).

On the wall between nave and aisles, which was covered with a panelling on its inside at least, were hung the shields and weapons of the chief and his retainers, or home-men. Sometimes it was painted with mythic subjects, and adorned with fantastic carvings; on great occasions it was covered with hangings. Along both side-walls ran a row of seats, called benches (bekkr), the north-most of which, or the one which faced the sun, was called the nobler bench (aeðri bekkr), the south-most one, the less noble bench, (úoeðri bekkr). In the middle of either bench was a seat, called the high seat (öndvegi); that of the nobler bench being occupied by the chief or head of the house, unless he had for his guest a man nobler than himself, in which case the latter took it; that of the less noble bench being allotted to the noblest among the guests. The nobler bench was on ordinary occasions the bench for the chief and the household. The less noble for the guests. In front of the chiefs high-seat were the high-seat-poles which in the early ages of Paganism in the North were objects of much veneration, and must always accompany the chief if he moved his abode, and point out his new homestead, if he fared for it over sea, by the spot where they drifted ashore, as, when land was sighted, they were thrown overboard. In front of the seat-rows just described were placed the tables whereon the meals were put forth. And when the number of people exceeded the capacity of the ordinary benches, a new row of benches was placed in front of the tables, so that there were two rows of benches down along either side of the hall with the tables between them. The last-named rows of benches were called forsoeti; and their occupiers, when seated at table, faced those of the upper and lower bench. In the centre of the hall, if of the fashion, as it probably was in early times, of a fire-hall, was a narrow oblong stone-pavement, probably as long as the rows of the benches, whereon fires were lit for heating of the room, for cooking of food in some cases, and for the purpose of lighting up the hall. The smoke that rose from the burning fuel found its way out through the luffer or louvre, in the middle of the ridge of the roof (ljóri); the reyk-beri, reek-bearer, seems to have been a contrivance for creating draught to carry the smoke out through the ljóri. In that end of the hall which was opposite to the entrance was the cross-bench, dais (pallr), occupied by the women. Here was also a high seat (öndvegi á palli), which was generally taken by the mistress of the house. In our saga it seems that the hall of Sand-heaps made an exception to this general rule, as it apparently had the dais immediately within the doorway.

P. 77 (cpr. 110). It is worth observing here, that Thorvald, son of Asgeir Madpate the younger, dwells at As in Waterdale, about 1013, when Thorgils Makson was slain. When Grettir played, as a youth, on Midfirth-water (or cca. 1010), he dwelt at Asgeirsriver. We mention this because there has been some confusion about the matter. On the slight authority of the Þáttr af Isleifi biskupi', Biskupa Sögur I. 54, it has been maintained that he dwelt at Asgeirsriver even as late as cca. 1035, when his daughter Dalla was wooed by Isleif the Bishop. G. Vigfússon, Safn til Sögu Islands, I. 337. On the other hand, the statement of Hungrvaka that he farmed at As (i.e., at the Ridge), at the time aforesaid, has given rise to the conjecture that thereby must be meant Valdar-As, a farm in Willowdale, near Asgeirsriver, the manor of the Madpate family. G. Vigfússon, in Biskupa Sögur, I. 61, note 2. It seems there is no need of setting aside the clear statement of our saga, that the As was As in Waterdale (see Index), and not Valdarás in Willowdale at all, or that Thorvald had, by 1013, moved up to the neighbouring country-side of Waterdale, and settled among the kin of his great-grandmother.

P. 114, 1. 1. 'The men of Meals,' is a close translation of the original, which, however, is incorrect; for the men of Meals were Grettir's kin-in-law, and natural allies. The saga means the men of Meal, Kormak and his followers, and the original should be either, þeir Mel-menn, or Mels-menn, or þeir Kormakr frá Mel.

P. 129, 1. 10, 11. We have purposely altered the text from: en þú öruggr í einangri, i.e., 'but thou stout in danger,' into: en þó, i.e., 'but stout in danger none-the-less.' The former reading seems barely to give any sense, the last a natural and the required one.

P. 169. Hallmund. Our saga is one among the historic sagas of Iceland which deals with traditions of ancient belief in the spirits of the unknown regions of the land that are interested in the well-being of the mere men who dwell near them. Hallmund and the giant Thorir are the representatives of these powers in our saga. Of these Hallmund is the more interesting of the two, both for his human sympathies, his tragic end, and the poetry ascribed to him. At one time or other he has had a great name in the Icelandic folk-lore among the spirits of the land, the so-called land wights (land-voetir), and there is still existing a poem of ancient type, the refrain of which is closely similar to that of Grettir's song on Hallmund, but which is stated to be by some cave-wight that lived in a deep and gloomy cavern somewhere in Deepfirth, on the north side of Broadfirth. In the so-called Bergbúaþáttr or cave-dweller's tale (Edited by G. Vigfússon in Nordiske Old-skrifter, xxvii., pp. 123-128, and 140-143, Copenhagen, 1860), this song is said to have been heard by two men, who, on their way to church, had lost their road, and were overtaken by the darkness of night, and, in order to escape straying too far out of their way, sought shelter under the lee of a sheer rock which chanced to be on their way. They soon found a mouth of a cave where they knew not that any cave was to be looked for, whereupon one of the wayfarers set up a cross-mark in the door of the cave, and then with his fellow-traveller sat down on two stones at the mouth of the cave, as they did not dare to risk themselves too far in the gloomy abode away from the cross. When the first third part of the night was spent they heard something come along from within the cave doorwards out to them.[20] They signed themselves with the sign of the cross, and prayed God's mercy to be on them, for they thought the doings within the deep of the cavern now grew big enough. On looking into the darkness they saw a sight like unto two full-moons, or huge targets, with some monstrous figure (unreadable in the MS.) between them. They thought this was nothing but two eyes, and that nowise narrow of face might he be who bore such torches. Next they heard a chanting of a monstrous kind and in a big voice. A lay there was sung of twelve staves, with the final refrain of each twice repeated.

[Footnote 20: Innan eptir, as here rendered, is the reading of the MS. from which Bergbua páttr is edited. Innar eptir, as the aforesaid edition of the tale has it, is wrong.]

The poem seems to be a death-song over the cave-kin of the country by the new change of thought brought in by Christianity.

P. 189. 'Grettir lay out that summer on Madderdale-heath, and in sundry places, and at whiles he was at Reek-heath.' A corroboration of the saga has been clearly set forth by the discovery of a Grettir's-lair, in Axefirth-peak, in 1862. True the saga passes over Grettir's doings on these vast eastern wildernesses, but tradition has preserved the name for the place, and it shows by its construction and position that it must have been constructed by one skilled in choosing a good fighting stand, and a good and wide view at the same time. An Icelandic farmer has thus given an accurate and reliable description of Grettir's lair:

'In the summer of 1850, when I came north to Axefirth, I heard talk of a Grettir's lair upon Axefirth-peak.... Many who had seen it made a slight matter of it, which brought me to think it must have few peculiarities of antiquarian interest to show. But on the 7th of September, this summer (1862), I went with the rape-ruler Arni Jónsson of Wood-stead to inspect the lair. Walking up to it from the level ground below took us three minutes. The lair stands in the lower part of a slip of stones beneath some sheer rocks between a sandstone rock, called the carline, and the stone slip from the peak. It is built up of stones, straight as a line, and runs, 4-3/4 ells in length, 10 inches broad, and is, within walls, 7/8 of an ell deep. The half of it is deftly covered in with flat stones, the longest of which are 2 ells 9 inches long, and about half an ell in thickness, and a little more in breadth. Small thin fragments of stone are wedged in between these where their junctures do not close tight, and so firmly are they fixed, that without instruments they may not be removed. One stone in the south wall is so large that we deemed it fully the task of from four to six men to move it when loose. The north side wall is beginning to give way, where the room is covered in. On the outside it is overgrown with black scurf and grey moss. The head end we deemed was the one which is turned to the rock and is not covered in, and evidently has been open from the beginning. Here the floor is overgrown with moss, grass, thyme, ferns, crow-foot, and lady's-mantle. In all likelihood the inmate has closed that part of the room in with hides, when needful. On sitting up, all who went to and fro on the road below, must have been within view; not only those who came from the north of Foxplain (Melrakkaslètta) and Nupa-sveit, but also far toward the north he had a view even unto the open sea, nay, even unto Budlunga-haven. Looking southwards, he must have seen all who came up from the outer firth; for from the lair there is a clear view even unto Burn-river, past which the high-road goes. A popular tradition says, too, that all who must needs pass this way, when Grettir was in the Peak, had taken at last to going over the top of the Peak, where there was no road, but the sheep-wilds of the Axefirthers. The lair-bider, even if he was set on by an overwhelming force, was not easily won, and least of all a man of such prowess as Grettir, except by shot; for he might at a moment's notice take his stand in the rock above his head, where one side only gives the chance of an onset, and where there is an ample supply of loose stones, large and small, on the Peak side of the rock to defend oneself; on three sides sheer rocks hem in the position, and those overhead are many times the height of a man's.'

P. 208. Knave-game. Perhaps the truer rendering would have been 'nut-game,' if indeed 'hnet tafl' here stands not for 'hnef-tafl,' as we at first supposed. It is undoubtedly true that among the early games of Iceland the 'hettafl,' 'hnottafl,' was a distinct kind of game, as was also the 'hneftafl,' 'hnefatafl,' knave-game. If we follow the text as it stands, the game that Thorbiorn played is supposed to have borne some resemblance to what is now called in Iceland 'refskák,' fox-play, anglice 'fox and geese,' the aim of which is, by twelve pieces, called lambs, to bring the fox into such a position as to leave him no place to move, whichso way he turns.

P. 240. Pied-belly we call the Ram, although the saga seems to mean that he was called Autumn-belly, which is a name of little, if of any, sense at all. We suppose that haus-mögóttr, p. 169, and haust-magi, p. 184, is one and the same thing, the t having spuriously crept into the text from a scribe's inadvertence.

P. 243 (cpr. 207, 225, 272). 'In such wise Grettir lost his life, &c.' The hardest thing to account for, or to bring to an intelligible issue in Grettir's saga, is the incongruity between the statements as to his age at his death and the number of years of his outlawry, as compared with the truthful account of the events told in the saga itself. From the time when Grettir slew his first man, all the events of the saga may be traced clearly year for year up to his death, and their truthfulness is borne out whensoever they chance to run parallel to events mentioned in other trustworthy sagas, and they fall in with the right time nearly without an exception. But the statement on the page referred to above, that he was fourteen years old when he slew Skeggi, that he was twenty when he dealt with Glam; twenty-five when he fell into outlawry, and forty-four when he was slain, is utterly confuted by the chronology of the saga itself.

These numbers given above are obviously made to fall in with the story in page 225 about the talk of the time of his outlawry at the Thing. The question is stated to have been this: whether he had been a fraction of the twentieth year an outlaw, his friends hoping that in such case a part might count pro toto. But the truth of the matter was that he had neither been an outlaw for a fraction of the twentieth year, nor even for anything like nineteen years. He was outlawed at the Thing held in 1016, his year of outlawry dated from Thing to Thing; this talk befell in 1031, consequently he had been full fifteen years and no fraction of a year in outlawry. The story, therefore, of the twenty years, or nineteen years and a fraction, of outlawry falls utterly to the ground when brought to the test of the actual facts as recorded in the saga.

But, despite of this, it is not to be supposed that this episode at the Thing in 1031 is brought in at random and without any cause. There are two obvious reasons for assigning twenty years to the length of Grettir's outlawry, and for bringing into the tale a discussion on that subject just where it is done. The one we may call the reason of traditional belief, the other the reason of dramatic effect. Grettir was indisputably for all reasons the greatest of Icelandic outlaws, and the fond imagination of his biographers at all times urged them to give the longest endurance to the time of his outlawry above all outlaws, without inquiring closely as to whether it agreed with the saga itself or not. The other, or the dramatic motive, lies in bringing in the discussion on this long outlawry just at this particular Thing of 1031; for it was obviously the teller's object to suggest to the reader the hope of the great outlaw's legal restoration to the cherished society of man just before the falling of the crushing blow, in order to give an enhanced tragic interest to his end, and he undoubtedly succeeds in doing this. To these reasons, besides others less obvious, we imagine this main inconsistency in Grettir's saga is to be ascribed.

Nevertheless, it is worth observing that blunders of scribes may have in a measure been at work here. If we are not mistaken most of the existing MSS. of our saga state that when he fell (p. 243) 'he was one winter short of--var hánum vetri fátt á'--whatever number of years they give as his age. And we venture the suggestion that originally the passage ran thus: var hánum vetri fátt á hálf iv{tugum},[21] i.e., he lacked one winter of thirty-five years, when he was slain. If a subsequent scribe committed the easy blunder of dropping I before V, the reading of our original (Edition, 53) would be the natural result, and an offspring of that same blunder would also as easily be the other reading, common to one class of the Grettir MSS.: var hánum vetri fátt í v{tugum} or í hinum v. tug, by dropping the syllable 'hálf.'

[Footnote 21: A man of twenty, thirty, forty, &c., is in the Icelandic expressed by the adjective tvítugr, prítugr, fertugr; a man twenty-five, thirty-five, &c., is hálf-prítugr, hálf-fertugr, &c.; the units beyond the tens are expressed by the particle um, a man of twenty-one, thirty-seven, or forty-nine, is said to have einn (i.e., vetr. winter) um = beyond, tvítugt, sjö um þrítugt, níu um fertugt, &c.]

If the whole passage on page 243, beginning with the words quoted in the commencement of this note, be not indeed a later interpolation, we believe that all that follows the words, 'till the time when he dealt with Glam, the Thrall,' must, indeed, be taken as an interpolation of later commentators.

Our suggestion recommends itself in this at least, that it brings about full harmony between the statements, here treated of, and the saga itself, for when Grettir left the land in 1011 he was fourteen years of age, and twenty years later, or 1031, he fell. How far his age thus given agrees or not with the decrepitude of his father, who died in 1015, having been apparently already a bedridden man for some time, is a matter of itself, and need not affect the accuracy of our suggestion, which, however, we only put forth as a conjecture, not having within reach the MSS. of Grettir's saga. A critical examination of these might, perhaps, allow of a more positive discourse on this vexed point, which to all commentators on Grettir has hitherto remained an insoluble riddle.

P. 251, 1. 12. The original makes Asdis daughter of Skeggi the Short-handed. This is here corrected agreeably to Landnáma, and other records of her family.

INDICES.

INDEX I.

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PERSONAL NAMES.

Air (Loptr), alias Hallmund, the mountain sprite, 160, 161, 162 Aldis Konal's-daughter, called A. from Barra, 5, 18, 19 Aldis, Ufeigh Grettir's daughter, 5, 27 Alf a-Dales, 5, 27 Ali, an house-carle of Thorbiorn Oxmain's, 130, 131, 132 Alof Ingolf's-daughter, wife of Eric Snare, 20 Angle. See Thorbiorn Angle. Ari Marson, 80 Arinbiorn. See Arnbiorn. Arnbiorn, kinsman of Thorfinn of Haramsey, Grettir's companion, 70, 71 Arngeir Berseson, father of Biorn Hitdale-champion, 170 Arni Jónsson, 277 Arnor Thorbiornson, 140-143 Arnor Thordson, called Earls' skald (Jarlaskáld), 178, 179, 180 Arnor Thorodson, called Hay-nose (heynef, or hýnef, Landnáma), 89 Arnora, Thord Yeller's daughter, 225 Asa, Ufeigh Grettir's daughter, first wife of Onund Treefoot, 5, 6, 18, 19 Asbiorn, Ufeigh Grettir's son, 5 Asbrand Thorbrandson, 129 Asdis, Bard Jokulson's daughter, the mother of Grettir Asmundson,27, 28, 30, 33, 36, 40, 112, 133, 139, 142, 143, 204, 205, 246, 247, 251 Asdis Gamli's-daughter, 251 Asgeir Audunson the older, called Madpate (son of Audun Skokul, al. Onund Treefoot), 20, 79, 83 Asgeir Audunson the younger, grandson of the preceding, called Madpate 34, 77, 83, 151 Asgrim Ellida-Grimson, 16, 159 Asgrim Ondottson, 13, 14, 15, 16 Asmund from Asmund's-peak, 25 Asmund Ondottson, 13, 14, 15, 16 Asmund Thorgrimson, called the Greyhaired (haerulángr), the father of Grettir the Strong, 25-27, 28-33, 35-36, 39, 40, 77-79, 81, 82, 90, 112, 113, 125, 126, 273 Asmund Ufeigh's-son, called the Beardless (skegglauss), 5 Asny Vestar's-daughter, wife of Ufeigh Grettir, 5 Asta Gudbrand's-daughter, mother of Olaf the Saint, King of Norway, 1 Asvor, Ufeigh Grettir's daughter, 5 Atli Asmundson, Grettir's brother, 28, 29, 30, 36, 83, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 111, 112, 125, 127, 128, 129, 130-133, 135, 139, 140, 143, 144, 150, 162 Atli Ulfson, called the Red (hinn rauði), 80 Aud (alias Unnr) the Deeply Wealthy,18, 19, 79 Audun, Asgeir Madpate's son, 83 Audun Asgeir's-son, of Audunstead, 34, 35, 38, 83, 84, 85, 86, 104 Audun Goaty (geit), an Earl in Norway, 13, 14 Audun Skokul (skökull), 20 Audun, goodman of Windham in Haramsey, 46, 47, 48

Balk Blaengson of Sotaness, 1, 4, 10, 170 Bard Jokulson,27, 104 Bard, the mate of Haflidi's ship, 40 Bardi (al. Slaying-Bardi) Gudmundson, of Asbiornsness, 85, 86, 87, 92, 93, 94, 95, 104 Bessi Balkson, called the Godless (goðlauss), 170 Bessi Skald-Torfa's-son, 34, 71, 73, 74, 75 Biarni, See Biorn, the settler of Biornfirth. Biarni of Dog-dale, 81 Biarni of Jorvi in Flysia-Wharf, 179, 277 Biarni Thorsteinson, the Sage (hinn spaki), 11 Biorn Arngeirson, called Hitdale-Champion, 170, 171, 172, 173, 181, 182 Biorn, settler of Biornfirth, 17, 273 Biorn, kinsman of Thorkel in Salft, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69 Biorn of Meadness, 208, 237, 238, 245 Biorn Rolfson, father of Eyvind the Eastman, 3, 5, 10, 11, 12 Biorn Ufeigh's-son, 208 Bloeng of Sotaness, 1 Bodmod, 25 Bodvar of Bodvar's-knolls, 89 Bork the Fat, 201 Botulf, grandfather of Thorir of Garth, 115 Brand, a fisherman, one of Thorgeir Bottleback's house-carles, 20 Brand, one of Thorbiorn Angle's followers at the slaying of Grettir, 238 Bundle-Torfi, 81

Crow-Hreidar. See Hreida.

Dalla Thorvald's-daughter, wife of Bishop Isleif, 77 Dromund. See Thorstein Dromund.

Egil Audunson, 104 Eid Skeggison, from the Ridge,184 Eilif Ketilson, 5 Einar, a bonder in Jadar, 122 Einar of Combe, 22 Einar Olvirson, 5 Ellida-Grim Asgrimson, 16, 159 Eric Alefain (ölfúss), of Sorreldale, 14, 15 Eric Hakonson, Earl of Norway, 50, 51 Eric Hroaldson, of God-dales, 208, 237 Eric Snare (snara), 17, 20, 23 Eric Starrison, 208 Eyulf, brother-in-law of Slaying-Bardi, 94 Eyolf of Fairwood, 179, 181 Eyulf Egilson, 104 Eyulf Gudmundson, 104 Eyvind Biornson, called the Eastman (austmaðr), 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10 Eyvind (Herraudson), settler of Eyvind's-firth, 20

Finnbogi Thorgeirson, 179, 180 Flosi Ericson, of Arnes, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25 Frederick the Bishop, 26 Fridgerd Thord's-daughter, 79 Fridmund of Shady-vale, 95 Frodi, the King, 5

Gamli Skeggison, 251 Gamli, the Vendlander or Widelander (Viðlendingr, Vindlendingr) 29, 90, 273 Gamli Thorhallson, of Meals, 29, 90, 126, 128, 143, 144, 151, 246, 248, 250, 273 Gaut Sleitason, 82, 83 Geirlaug, goodwife of Broadlair-stead, 202 Geirmund Helskin (heljarskinn), king of Hordaland, 2, 4 Geirmund Hiuka-timber, 25 Gerd Bodvar's-daughter, 89 Gerpir, 25 Gisli Thorsteinson, 172, 174, 175, 176, 177 Glam from Sylgsdales, afterwards a ghost, 96-110, 243 Glum Uspakson, 29, 128, 246 Grettir Asmundson, called the Strong, 28-33, 34-35, 36-39, 40-45, 46-59, 60-62, 63-76, 83-87, 88-89, 90-91, 92-94, 95, 104-110, 112-114, 116-121, 122-123, 124-125, 133-134, 135-140, 141-143, 144, 145-148, 149, 150, 151, 152-157, 158-159, 159-162, 163-164, 165-167, 168-170, 171, 173-178, 179-180, 181-183, 187, 189-191, 192-199, 200, 201, 202-203, 204-207, 209-210, 210-212, 213-217, 218, 219-220, 220-222, 223, 224, 225, 226, 228-229, 230, 231, 232, 233-235, 238-243, 244, 245, 246, 247, 248, 249, 250, 251, 252, 253, 254, 272 Grim Gamlison, 29 Grim Kolbiornson, a hersir in Norway, 5, 11, 12, 13, 14 Grim the Northlander, an outlaw and hired assassin, 163, 164 Grim Thorhallson, of Thorhall-stead in Shady-vale, 95 Grim Thorhallson, grandson of the preceding, 95 Grim Thorhallson of Meals, afterwards of Gilsbank, 90, 126, 128, 129, 130, 138, 139, 159, 162, 163, 168, 182 Grim, son of the Widow of Kropp, 184, 185, 188, 200, 201 Grimulf, 25 Gudbiorg Ufeigh's-daughter, 1 Gudbrand Ball (kúla), 1 Gudbrandr Vigfússon, 275, 276 Gudmund the Rich (hinn ríki), of Maddervales, 200, 204 Gudmund Solmundson, 85, 92 Gudrun, wife of Thorhall Grimson of Shady-vale, 95 Guest (= Grettir Asmundson), 192, 193, 194, 212-214 Gunnar, Court-owner in Tunsberg, 71, 72, 73 Gunnar Thorirson, of the Pass, 90, 91, 126, 127, 128 Gyda, wife of Ingiald the Trusty, 13 Gyrid Einar's-daughter, 122

Haeng, father of Vestar, 5 Haering, 222, 223, 224, 230 Haflidi of Reydarfell, a skipper, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45 Hafr Thorarinson, 212, 214, 215 Hafr Thordson, 212 Hakon, Earl of Norway, 50 Hakon Ericson, an Earl of Norway, 50 Haldor Thorgeirson of Hof in Head-strand, 208, 215, 236, 237, 238, 240, 249, 278 Haldora Steinmod's-daughter, 5 Halfdan the Black (hinn svarti), 2 Hall Gudmundson of Asbiornsness, 86 Hall of Kropp, 136, 137 Hallmund, a mountain sprite, 169, 170, 182, 184, 185-188, 200, 276 Hallstein Horse (hestr), 14, 15 Hallvard Sweeping (súgandi), 1, 4, 10, 15 Hamund, a fisherman, one of Thorgeir Bottleback's household, 20 Harald Halfdanson, called the Unshorn (lúfa) and the Fair-hair (hárfagri), King of Norway, 2, 3, 4, 5 Harald Ring, 129 Harald Sigurdson, Varangian chief, afterwards King of Norway, 257, 260, 267, 268, 269 Harek, a king's farmer in Norway, 12, 13 Head-Thord = Thord of Hofdi, 79, 208 Hedin, a Skald. Hedin of Soknadale, 13 Helga Ondott's-daughter, second wife of Biorn Rolfson, and mother of Thrand, 5 Helga Thorkel's-daughter, of Fishbrook, 115 Helga Thorir's-daughter, from Boardere, 90 Helgi of Bathstead, 152, 153 Helgi Eyvindson, called the Lean (hinn magri), 6, 16 Hjalti Thord Scalp's-son, 207 Hialti Thordson, of Hof, 207, 209, 211, 215, 216, 217, 237, 241, 251 Hiarandi, Earl Svein's man, 69, 70, 71 Hlif Rolfs-daughter, the first wife of Biorn Rolfson, 5 Holmgang-Starri. See Starri Ericson. Hoskuld, father of Olaf Peacock, 152 Hrefna Asgeir's-daughter (d. of Asgeir Madpate the Younger), 156 Hreiðar, called Crow-Hreiðar (Kráku-H.), 208 Hroald Geirmundson, 208

Illugi Asmundson, 112, 126, 162, 200, 204, 205, 211, 217, 219, 220, 223, 224, 229, 231, 232, 233, 238, 240, 241, 243, 244, 245, 246, 248, 250, 251 Ingiald the Trusty (tryggvi) of Hvin, 13 Ingiald Frodison, an Earl, 5 Ingimund Thorsteinson, called the Old (hinn gamli), 27, 92 Ingolf (Herraudson), of Ingolf's-firth, 20 Ingolf Ornsorn, 24 Jokul Bardson, 104, 105 Jokul Ingimundson, 27 Isleif Gissurson, first Bishop of Skalholt, 77, 250, 275 Ivar Kolbeinson, 22, 23 Ivar Smiter (beytill), 1

Kalf Asgeirson, of Asgeir's-river, son of Asgeir Madpate the younger, 34, 35 Kari Solmundson, called Singed-(sviðu)-Kari, 19 Karr, one of Thorbiorn Angle's followers in the slaying of Grettir, 238, 240 Karr the Old, a ghost, 46, 47, 48, 56 Ketil the Huge (raumr), 27 Ketil the Onehanded (hinn ein-hendi), 57 Kiarlak of Skridinsenni, 29 Kiartan Steinson, of Isledale-river, 191, 201 Kiarval, a sea-king, 1 Kiarval, king of Ireland, 6, 10 Kiotvi the Wealthy (hinn auðgi), 2 Knut the Mighty, king of England, 50, 173 Kolbein (of Rogaland), 12, 15 Kolbiorn the Abasher (sneypir), 5 Konal Steinmodson, 5 Kormak of Meal in Midfirth, 34, 87, 88, 90, 91, 92, 111

Leif Kolbeinson, 22, 23

Magnus the Good, king of Norway, 268 Mar Atlison, 80 Michael Katalak, 'king' of Constantinople, 253 Midfirth-Skeggi, 19, 24, 25

Narfi, kinsman of Kormak and Thorgils of Meal, 90 Noise. See Thorbiorn Noise.

Odd Foundling-Skald (úmaga-skáld), 34, 87, 88, 90 Odd, the Monk, 251 Odd Ufeigh's son, 29 Ogmund the Evil (illi), 51-57, 60 Olaf Eyvindson of Drangar, 20, 22, 23, 24 Olaf Haraldson, Saint, king of Norway, 1, 112, 114, 115, 118, 119, 120, 121 Olaf Hoskuldson, called Peacock (pá), 152 Olaf Thorsteinson, called Feilan, 18, 19, 79 Oleif Einarson, called the Broad (breiðr), 5 Olvir Bairn-Carle (barnakarl), 5 Ondott Crow (kráka), 5, 11, 12, 13, 14 Onund Ufeigh's son, called Treefoot (trèfótr), 1, 2-4, 5-9, 10, 11, 12-15, 16-18, 19, 20, 23 Orm Eyolfson, chaplain of Bishop Thorlak, 104 Orm Storolfson, 172, 277 Orm the Wealthy (hinn audgi), 1

Rafarta Kiarval's-daughter, 5 Ranveig Asmund's-daughter, 29, 90, 273 Ranveig, first wife of Asmund Gray-hair, 26 Redbeard. See Thorir Redbeard. Rognvald, an earl, 2 Rolf of Am, father of Biorn, 5 Rolf Ingialdson, father of Hlif, 5 Rut of Combeness, 182

Saemund, the South-Island man, 92, 276 Sam Borkson, 201 Sigfast, son-in-law of King Solver, 5 Sighvat, father-in-law of Ondott Crow, 13 Signy Sighvat's-daughter, 13 Sigurd, Bishop, 115 Sigurd, the husband of Spes, 255, 258, 259, 260, 261, 262, 263, 266, 267 Skald-Torfa, 34, 71, 73 Skapti Thorodson of Hjalli, lawman, 82, 95, 96, 97, 134, 149, 150, 159, 162, 163, 224 Skeggi. See Midfirth Skeggi. Skeggi Botulfson, 115 Skeggi Gamlison, of Scarf-stead, 251 Skeggi, a house-carle from the Ridge in Waterdale, 37, 38, 243, 250 Skeggi of the Ridge, 184 Skeggi, son of Steinvor, fathered on Kiartan, 201 Skeggi Thorarinson, 79 Skeggi Thorirson, from Garth, 115 Skeggi Gamlison (from Meals), called the Short-handed (Skammhöndúngr), 151, 246, 248, 249, 250, 251 Skeggi Gamlison, grandson of the preceding, 251 Skuf of Dog-dale, 81 Slaying-Styr, 152 Sleita-Helgi, 90 Snaebiorn Eyvindson, 6 Snaeskoll, a bearserk, 122, 123 Snorri Thorgrimson, called S. Godi, 144, 145, 151, 152, 201, 202, 203, 224 Solmund (Eilifson), 92 Solmund Thorbiornson, 19 Solver, King of Gothland, 5 Solvi Asbrandson, called the Proud (prúði), 129 Sons of Thord = Hjalti of Hof and Thorbiorn Angle, 215 Sons of Thorir = Gunnar and Thorgeir from the Pass, 91, 126, 129 Sons of Thorir = Thorgeir and Skeggi, from Garth, 117, 118, 134 Spes, the wife of Sigurd, afterwards wife of Thorstein Dromund, 255 Starri Ericson, called Holmgang-Starri (Hólmgaungu-S.), 208 Stein Biornson, called Tongue-Stein (Túngu-S.), 208, 237 Stein, priest of Isledale-river, 191, 195, 201 Stein, a shipwrecked Skipper, 22, 23, 24, 25 Stein Thorgestson, lawman, 225, 250 Stein Thorirson, called the Far-sailing (mjöksiglandi), 225 Steinmod Konalson, 5 Steinmod Olvirson, 5 Steinulf Olvirson, 5 Steinulf Thorleifson, from Lavadale, 179, 180, 182 Steinun Rut's-daughter, 182 Steinvor the Old (gamla), 24 Steinvor of Sand-heaps, 191, 192, 201 Sturla Thordson, lawman, 144, 207, 272 Sulki, a king in Norway, 2 Swan of Knoll, 23, 24 Svein of Bank, 135-139 Svein, Earl of Norway, 50, 51, 69, 70, 71, 73. 74. 75, 112

Tardy. See Thorbiorn Tardy. Thora Thormod's-daughter, 11 Thoralf of Ere in Icefirth, 154 Thoralf Skolmson, 172, 277 Thorarin Hafrson, 212 Thorarin Ingialdson of Acres, 179, 180, 182 Thorarin Thordson, called Fylsenni, 79 Thorarin the Wise (hinn spaki), 87, 92, 93 Thorbiorg Olaf's-daughter, called the Big (digra), 152, 154, 155, 156, 157 Thorbiorn Arnorson, called Oxmain (öxnamegin), 89, 90, 91, 92, 111, 125, 126, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133. 139. 140, 141, 142,143, 144, 150, 151, 234 Thorbiorn Earls' champion (Jarlakappi), 18, 19 Thorbiorn Noise (glaumr), Grettir's servant-man, 206, 211, 219, 231, 232, 235, 239, 240, 245 Thorbiorn Salmon-Carle, 5, 11 Thorbiorn Thordson, called Angle, 208, 209, 211, 212, 215, 216, 217, 218, 222, 223, 224, 226, 227, 228, 229, 230, 231, 234, 235, 236, 237, 238, 239, 240, 241, 242, 243, 244, 245, 246, 247, 248, 249, 250, 251, 252, 253, 254 Thorbiorn Tardy (ferðalángr), 89, 91, 111, 112-114, 125, 126, 128 Thorbrand Haraldson, 129 Thord Hialtison, 207, 208 Thord of Hofdi (==Head-Thord), 79 Thord Knob, 212 Thord Kolbeinson, of Hitness, 171, 172, 173, 178 Thord Scalp, 207 Thord Olafson, called the Yeller (gellir), 78, 79, 225 Thord Thordson (son of Head-Thord). See Thorgeir. Thordis Asmund's-daughter, wife of Thorgrim Greypate, 25 Thordis Asmund's daughter, wife of Glum Uspakson, 29 Thordis Thord's-daughter, 208 Thordis Thorgrim's-daughter, second wife of Onund Treefoot, 19, 20 Thords, two brothers of Broad-river in Flat-lithe in Skagafirth, 209, 211, 216 Thorelf Alf a-Dales'-daughter, 80 Thorfinn of Brook-bow, 179 Thorfinn, house-carle of Flosi in Arnes, 20, 23, 25 Thorfinn Karrson of Haramsey, 46-50, 51, 52, 53, 56, 59, 60, 62, 69, 70,71, 73, 74, 75, 76, 84 Thorgaut, a herdsman of Thorhall-stead in Shady-vale, 101, 102 Thorgeir Havarson, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149 Thorgeir Onundson, called Bottleback (flöskubak), 19, 20, 21, 23, 24, 25 Thorgeir Thordson (s. of Head-Thord), 208, 278 Thorgeir Thorhaddson of Hitdale, 179 Thorgeir Thorirson from Garth, 115 Thorgeir Thorirson, from the Pass, 90, 91, 126, 127, 128 Thorgerd Alf a-Dales'-daughter, 80 Thorgest Steinson, 225 Thorgils Arison, of Reek-knolls, 80, 81, 82, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149 Thorgils Ingialdson, 179, 180, 289 Thorgils Makson, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81,82 Thorgils of Meal in Midfirth, 34, 87, 90 Thorgrim of Gnup in Midfirth, 19 Thorgrim (Hallormson), the Godi of Cornriver, 26 Thorgrim Onundson, called Greypate (haerukollr), 19, 20, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27 Thorhadd Steinson, 179 Thorhall Asgrimson, of Tongue, 159 Thorhall Fridmundson, 95 Thorhall Gamlison, 29, 90, 273 Thorhall Grimson, of Thorhall-stead in Shady-vale, 95-102, 105, 106-110 Thorir Autumn-mirk (haustmyrkr), 225 Thorir Longchin (haklángr), 2, 3 Thorir Thorkelson, of the Pass, 89, 90, 273 Thorir Redbeard (rauðskeggr), an outlaw and hired assassin, 164-168 Thorir Skeggison, of Garth, 115, 117, 118, 129, 133, 134, 151, 164, 165, 168, 169, 173, 186, 188, 190, 191, 200, 225, 245, 246 Thorir Paunch (Þömb), 51-57, 60 Thorir in Thorirs-dale, a mountain-sprite, 183, 276 Thorkel of Boardere, 89 Thorkel Eyulfson, 188 Thorkel of Fishbrook, 115 Thorkel of Giorvidale, 152, 153, 154 Thorkel Moon (Máni), 24 Thorkel Thordson, called Kugg, 78 Thorkel Thorgrimson, called Krafla, 26, 27, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 77 Thorkel of Salft, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67,69 Thorlak (Thorhallson, Saint), Bishop of Skalholt, 104 Thorlaug Saemund's daughter, 92 Thorleif, one of Thorbiorn Angle's followers at the slaying of Grettir, 238 Thorleif of Lavadale, 182 Thormod Coalbrowskald (kolbrúnarskáld), 77, 78, 79, 81, 82, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149 Thormod Oleifson, called Shaft (skapti), 4, 5, 6, 7, 11, 12, 19 Thorod, who settled Ramfirth, 89 Thorod Arnorson, called Drapa-Stump (drápustúfr), 89, 91, 142, 143, 144, 150, 151, 246, 248, 250 Thorod Eyvindson, the Godi, of Hjalli, 11, 24,96 Thorod Snorrison, 201, 202, 203,204 Thorolf of Ere, 154 Thorolf, called the Fastholding (fasthaldi), 273 Thorolf Skolmson. See Thoralf. Thorstein Asmundson, called Dromund, 26, 71, 74, 75, 121-125, 252, 253, 254, 255, 256, 257, 258, 259, 260, 261, 262, 263, 264-272 Thorstein, whom Snorri Godi had slain, 172 Thorstein Godi, 11 Thorstein Ketilson, 27 Thorstein the Red (rauðr), 79 Thorstein of Reekness, 22 Thorstein, Thorkel Kugg's son, called Kuggson, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 143, 144, 145, 158, 159, 170, 200, 201 Thorstein the Uplander, 26 Thorstein the White (hvíti), of Sand-heaps, 191 Thorvald Asgeirson, son of Asgeir Madpate the younger, 34, 35, 77, 79, 110, 129, 130, 151, 248, 249, 250 Thorvald of Drangar, 16 Thorvald Kodranson, 27 Thorvald of Reeks in Skagafirth, 207, 222 Thorvor, Thormod's daughter, 11 Thrand Biornson, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 19 Thrand Thorarinson, 179, 180, 182 Thurid Asgeir's-daughter, d. of Asgeir Madpate the older, 79 Thurid Thorhall's-daughter, 95, 104 Thurid, Thorbiorn Angle's stepmother, 208, 226-231 Tongue-Stein. See Stein Biornson. Torfi Vebrandson, 234 Ufeigh, the father of Odd, 29 Ufeigh Ivarson, called Clubfoot (burlufótr), 1 Ufeigh Einarson, called Grettir, 4, 5, 6, 7, 11, 12, 18 Ufeigh (Herraudson), the Settler of Ufeigh's-firth, 20 Ufeigh Hreiðarson (Crow-Hr.), called Thinbeard (Þunnskeggr), 208 Ufeigh Onundson, called Grettir, 19, 24, 25 Ulf the Squinter (skjálgi), 80 Ulfheid Eyulf's-daughter, 104 Una Steinulf's-daughter, 5 Uspak Glumson, of Ere in Bitra, 29, 151, 246, 247, 248 Uspak Kiarlakson of Skridinsenni, 29 Vermund the Slender, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157 Vestar Haengson, 5 Vestmar, a viking, 7, 9 Vigbiod, a viking, 7, 8, 9 Vikar, one of Thord Angle's followers at the slaying of Grettir, 241

INDEX II.

LOCAL NAMES.

Acres (Akrar), 178, 179, 182 Agdir, now Nedenes-Lister-og Mandals-Fogderi, in Norway, 5, 13 Armansfell, 97 Arness in the Strands, 17, 20, 21 Asbiornsness (Asbjarnarnes) in Willowdale, 85, 92 Asgeir's-River (Asgeirsá), a farm in Willowdale, 20, 34, 275 Aslaugs-lithe (Aslaugarhlið), 176 Audunstead in Willowdale (Auðunarstaðir), 34, 83, 84, 104 Axefirth (Axarfjörðr), 25, 277 Axefirth-peak (Axarfjardar-nupr), 277

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