peculiar to Grettir's saga. Yet its statements are inconsistent in
the matter, for it gives this twofold genealogy of the man. See Ed.
Kaupmannahoefn: 1853.

P. 22. Ranveig was the wife of Gamli, the son of <i>Thorald</i>, the
son of the <i>Vendlander</i>.

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

According to 'Landnama,' 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 (Isafjartethardjup), and farmed at Snowfells (Snaefjoell).
We have given Thorhall in our translation in both places as the
man's name. Perhaps Thoraldr is nothing but a corruption of Thorolfr
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, <i>holl, skali, stofa</i>, was the
principal room in every home. <i>Elda-skali</i>, 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 (<i>karldyrr,
kvenndyrr</i>), being respectively for the ingress and egress of
men and women. Sometimes the men's-door was adorned with the beaks
(<i>brandar</i>) 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 (<i>forkali, fortofa, and-dyri, framhus</i>), which,
sometimes at least, seems to have been portioned off into an inner
room (<i>klefi</i>), 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 (<i>skot</i>):
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, an