the Old of Mossfell. The mother of Teit was Helga, daughter of Thord Skeggi's son, Hrapp's son, Bjorn's son the Roughfooted, Grim's son, the Lord of Sogn in Norway. The mother of Jorunn was Olof Harvest-heal, daughter of Bodvar, Viking-Kari's son.
13
His daughter was Thorgerda, mother of Sigfus, the father of Saemund the Learned.
14
"Oyce," a north country word for the mouth of a river, from the Icelandic.
15
"The Bay" (comp. ch. ii., and other passages), the name given to the great bay in the east of Norway, the entrance of which from the North Sea is the Cattegat, and at the end of which is the Christiania Firth. The name also applies to the land round the Bay, which thus formed a district, the boundary of which, on the one side, was the promontory called Lindesnaes, or the Naze, and on the other, the Gota-Elf, the river on which the Swedish town of Gottenburg stands, and off the mouth of which lies the island of Hisingen, mentioned shortly after.
16
Easterling, i.e., the Norseman Hallvard.
17
Permia, the country one comes to after doubling the North Cape.
18
A town at the mouth of the Christiania Firth. It was a great place for traffic in early times, and was long the only mart in the south-east of Norway.
19
Rill of wolf – stream of blood.
20
A province of Sweden.
21
An island in the Baltic, off the coast of Esthonia.
22
"Endil's courser" – periphrasis for a ship.
23
"Sigar's storm" – periphrasis for a sea-fight.
24
Grieve, i.e., bailiff, head workman.
25
"Swanbath's beams" – periphrasis for gold.
26
"Thou, that heapest boards," etc. – merely a periphrasis for man, and scarcely fitting, except in irony, to a splitter of firewood.
27
Teit's mother's name was Helga. She was a daughter of Thord Longbeard, who was the son of Hrapp, who was the son of Bjorn the Rough-footed, who was the son of Grim, the Lord of Sogn in Norway. Gizur's mother's name was Olof. She was a daughter of Lord Baudvar, Viking-Kari's son.
28
That is, slew him in a duel. (2) Mord Valgard's son lived at the other farm called Hof.
