," a north country word for the mouth of a river,
from the Icelandic _os_]

[Footnote 11: "The Bay," 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 Goeta-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.]

[Footnote 12: Permia, the country one comes to after doubling the North
Cape.]

[Footnote 13: 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.]

[Footnote 14: Rill of wolf--stream of blood.]

[Footnote 15: A province of Sweden.]

[Footnote 16: An island in the Baltic, off the coast of Esthonia.]

[Footnote 17: Endil's courser--periphrasis for a ship.]

[Footnote 18: Sigar's storm--periphrasis for a sea-fight.]

[Footnote 19: Grieve, i.e., bailiff, head workman.]

[Footnote 20: Swanbath's beams, periphrasis for gold.]

[Footnote 21: "Thou, that heapest hoards," etc.--merely a periphrasis
for man, and scarcely fitting, except in irony, to a splitter of
firewood.]

[Footnote 22: That is, slew him in a duel.]

[Footnote 23: This shows that the shields were oblong, running down to a
point.]

[Footnote 24: "Ocean's fire," a periphrasis for "gold". The whole line
is a periphrasis for "bountiful chief".]

[Footnote 25: "Rhine's fire," a periphrasis for gold.]

[Footnote 26: "Water-skates," a periphrasis for ships.]

[Footnote 27: "Great Rift," Almannagja--The great volcanic rift, or
"geo," as it would be called in Orkney and Shetland, which bounds the
plain of the Althing on one side.]

[Footnote 28: Thorgrim Easterling and Thorbrand.]

[Footnote 29: "Frodi's flour," a periphrasis for gold.]

[Footnote 30: "Sea's bright sunbeams," a periphrasis for gold.]

[Footnote 31: Constantinople.]

[Footnote 32: Hlada or Lada, and sometimes in the plural Ladir, was the
old capital of Drontheim, before Nidaios--the present Drontheim--was
founded. Drontheim was originally the name of the country round the
firth of the same name, and is not used in the old Sagas for a town.]

[Footnote 33: The country round the Chris