s snow-shoe (14),
On the briny billows glide,
For a storm by Thor awakened,
Dashed the bark to splinters small."

After that Thangbrand and Steinvora parted, and they fared west
to Bardastrand.

ENDNOTES:

(1) "Forge which foams with song," the poet's head, in which
songs are forged, and gush forth like foaming mead.
(2) "Hero's helm-prop," the hero's, man's, head which supports
his helm.
(3) It is needless to say that this Hall was not Hall of the
Side.
(4) "Wolf of Gods," the "caput lupinum," the outlaw of heaven,
the outcast from Valhalla, Thangbrand.
(5) "The other wolf," Gudleif.
(6) "Swarthy skarf," the skarf, or "pelecanus carbo", the
cormorant. He compares the message of Thorwald to the
cormorant skimming over the waves, and says he will never
take it. "Snap at flies," a very common Icelandic metaphor
from fish rising to a fly.
(7) Maurer thinks the allusion is here to some mythological
legend on Odin's adventures which has not come down to us.
(8) "He that giant's," etc., Thor.
(9) "Mew-field's bison," the sea-going ship, which sails over
the plain of the sea-mew.
(10) "Bell's warder," the Christian priest whose bell-ringing
formed part of the rites of the new faith.
(11) "Falcon of the strand," ship.
(12) "Courser of the causeway," ship.
(13) "Gylfi's hart," ship.
(14) "Viking's snow-shoe," sea-king's ship.

99. OF GEST ODDLEIF'S SON

Gest Oddleif's son dwelt at Hagi on Bardastrand. He was one of
the wisest of men, so that he foresaw the fates and fortunes of
men. He made a feast for Thangbrand and his men. They fared to
Hagi with sixty men. Then it was said that there were two
hundred heathen men to meet them, and that a Baresark was looked
for to come thither, whose name was Otrygg, and all were afraid
of him. Of him such great things as these were said, that he
feared neither fire nor sword, and the heathen men were sore
afraid at his coming. Then Thangbrand asked if men were willing
to take the faith, but all the heathen men spoke against it.

"Well," says Thangbrand, "I will give you the means whereby ye
shall prove whether my faith is better. We will hallow two
fires. The heathen men shall hallow one and I the other, but a
third shall be unhallowed; and if the Baresark is afraid of the
one that I hallow, but treads both the others, then ye shall take
the faith."

"That is well spoken," says G