. I-VIII. For a full bibliography of the texts,
translations, and general literature dealing with the _Fornaldarsoegur_
collectively, see the annual _Islandica_, Vol. V, pp. 1-9, compiled
by Halldor Hermannsson and issued by the Cornell University Library,
1912.

[Footnote 1: Cf. Saxo Grammaticus, _Dan. Hist._, Book V, p.
160 (Elton's translation, pp. 197, 198).]

[Footnote 2: Cf. Saxo, _op. cit._, Book V, p. 166 (Elton's
translation, p. 205).]

[Footnote 3: Cf. Introduction to the _Saga of Hromund
Greipsson_, p. 58 below.]

[Footnote 4: Cf. Heusler and Ranisch, _Eddica Minora_
(Dortmund, 1903) p. xii.]

[Footnote 5: _De Origine Actibusque Getarum_ (transl. C.C.
Mierow, Princeton, 1915), cap. 5.]

[Footnote 6: Cf. Heusler and Ranisch, _op. cit._, p. x ff.]

[Footnote 7: Ker, _Epic and Romance_ (London, 1908, 2nd ed.),
p. 112.]

[Footnote 8: S. Grundtvig, _Danmarks Gamle Folkeviser_
(Copenhagen, 1853-1890), Bd I, no. 7.]

[Footnote 9: See General Introduction to Part II, p. 166
below.]

[Footnote 10: Cf. Axel Olrik, _Danske Folkeviser i Udvalg_
(Copenhagen and Christiania, 1913), pp. 81, 82.]

[Footnote 11: A. _Thattr_ (pl. _Thaettir_) is a story within a
story--an episode complete in itself but contained in a long
saga.]

[Footnote 12: _Eddica Minora_, pp. xxi, xlii.]

[Footnote 13: _Op. cit._, Book V, p. 166 (Elton's translation,
pp. 204, 205).]

[Footnote 14: See Introduction to the _Hervarar Saga_, pp.
81-4 below.]

[Footnote 15: See Introduction to the _Griplur_, p. 171 ff.
below.]

[Footnote 16: Cf. p. 165 ff. below.]

[Footnote 17: Cf. General Introduction to Part II, p. 166
below.]

[Footnote 18: Bugge's edition of the _Saemundar Edda_, p. 352
ff.; also Ker, _Epic and Romance_, p. 114 etc.; Vigfusson and
Powell, _Corpus Poeticum Boreale_ (Oxford, 1883), Vol. I, p.
501 ff.]

[Footnote 19: _C. P. B._, Vol. I, pp. 175 and 501 ff.]

[Footnote 20: _C. P. B._, Vol. I, p. 502 ff.]

[Footnote 21: Always, however, with the proviso that, owing
to the avowed literary origin of many of them, the Faroese
ballads to some extent form a class by themselves; cf. General
Introduction to Part II, p. 166 below.]

[Footnote 22: Cf. Chadwick, _The Heroic Age_ (Cambridge,
1912), p. 95.]

[Footnote 23: Cf. the Introduction to