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his agreeable presence and his fair speech. He had three children —
the wolf Fenris, the world-serpent, and Hel.” (H. H. Boyesen.)
PaGE 10. Lawman Tore.
The Lawman (Lagmand) was the spokesman of the Thing, who knew
the law by heart, and declared it when disputes arose. When Tore is
later represented as “grasping the ancient law-book,” the poet employs
an anachronism, since the law at that time remained unwritten.
PaGE 10. Truce was proclaimed.
No outlaw might be present at the Thing. Should one present himself,
he might be slain without compunction.
PacE 11. Gauta-Tore.
The Tore who comes with Afrafaste to join the King in the Tenth
Song.
PaGE 11. Varg i veum.
Wolf in the sanctuary. It will be remembered that in the Frithiof Saga,
the hero, in his bitterness, declares that men call him varg i veum.
PaGE 11. Hel.
Daughter of Loki, and goddess of the underworld.
PaGE 12. A god in the grove.
The images of the gods were usually erected in groves ; hence this ex-
pression, which occurs elsewhere in the poem.
Pace 15. Unloaded his ships.
This would seem to indicate that he had come by way of the Gulf of
Bothnia, and that Iamtland reached to the coast.
PaGE 15. Vikar of Tiundaland.
Arnljot’s brother is mentioned in Chapter 102 of the Saga of Olaf Tryg-
vason in the Heimskringla (and also twice in the Great O. T. Saga),
where we read of the manning of the Long Serpent, Olaf’s famous war-
ship. “ Wulf the Red was the man hight who bore King Olaf’s banner
and was in the prow of the Worm; and next to him was Kolbjorn the
Marshal, Thorstein Oxfoot also, and Vikar of Tenthland, the brother
of Arnljot Gelline.”
PaGE 17. Svolder.
A small island in the Baltic, between Rigen and the mainland. There
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