The Story of Grettir the Strong by Eiríkr Magnússon and William Morris (bookstand for reading txt) 📕

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Horse-stable, 106
House of refuge (sáluhús), 117
Latch, 56
Lock-bed, 107
Loft (sleeping-loft), 14, 124
Long-fires, 30
Rafters, 108
Roof, 107, 240
Seat-beam, 84, 107
Side-wall, 193
Thatch, 108, 240
Threshold, 108, 133
Tie-beam, 107

Landwights.

Amongst these are to be numbered Hallmund and Thorir the half-troll
of Thorir's-dale, and the wights told of in Hallmund's Song, 187
Atonement. See Weregild.

Law, Suits, Penalties.

Boot for insulting language, 66
Banishment, 129
Declaring manslaughter as having been done by one's own hand, 133, 142
District-outlawry, 129
Execution (féránsdómr), 247-248
Fine, 39, and passim.
Handselling of a lawsuit, 39
Handselling of lawful truce, 212, 214

Law-provisions

For drift-right, 25
For bearserks challenging men to holm, 51
For heritage of outlawed men in Norway in the days of
Harold Fairhair, 11
For the utmost limit of outlawry, 225
For heathen sacrifices in the earliest days of Christianity
in Iceland, 226
For a rightful suitor in a blood-suit, 150

Lawsuits, 18, 19, 24, 39, 79, 129, 130, 149, 151, 238, 249, 250

Manners and Customs, Civil and Religious.

Bathing, 148, 220
Burial of misdoers in cairns and tidewashed heap of stones, 59, 241
Burial in barrows. See Barrows.
—at churches, 126, 142
Fasting on Yule-eve, 98
to iron birth, 119
Hallowing of a vessel by a bishop, 115
Iron-birth, 119
Meal-times, 49
Riding, to the Althing, 36, 79
[298] Rubbing of one's back by the fire, 30
Sailors' duties have to be per-formed on board ship by the
passengers, 41, sqq.
Sitting at table in the evening, 48
Sleeping in fire-halls, 30
Thing-men have to provide themselves, each one with fare at his own cost, 38
Varangian weapon-show, 253
Washing of hands ere going to table, 113

Money.

Hundred in silver, 151
Mark in silver, 151, 173

Names of folk derived from their country or dwelling-stead

Axefirthers, 278
Gothlander, 11
Halogalander, 57
Icefirthers, 155, 156
Lavadale-men, 182
Marshmen, 182
Northlanders, 163
Northmen, 10, 253
Ramfirthers, 34, and passim.
South-Islander, 7, 92
The men of Biarg, 88, 92
The men of Coldback, 20, sqq.
The men of the Creek, 20, sqq.
Varangians, 253, sqq.
Waterdale-folk, 26, 38
Waterdale-kin, 142
Waterness-men, 34, 88
Well-wharfers, 170
Westfirthers, 80
Westhope-men, 34
Willowdale-men, 34

Occupations.

Binding of hay into horseloads for being conveyed into rick-yard
or barn, 140, 141
Catching of fowl, 219
Drift-watching, 22
Fetching home victuals from mountain dairies, 84
Fetching home stockfish on horses, 126, 128
Fishing in sea and fresh water, 163, 166, 184
Folding, gathering sheep in autumn up from the wilds
and mountains, to be sorted for their owners according to
the marks in the ears of each sheep, 174
Gathering of eggs, 214
Hay-harvest, falls into two parts, the first, the haymaking in the
manured homefield, the second, in unmanured meads and mountains,
132, 140
Iron-smithying, 158
Mowing-tide, the whole season of the summer while grass can be
mown, 84, 132
Watching of home-geese, 29
of horses in winter, 31
of neat, 102
of sheep, 98, 101, 206
Whale-getting, 21, 77
Whale-cutting, 23

Pet Animals.

Keingala, a mare, 31
Pied-belly, a ram, 240
Saddle-fair, a mare, 135

Runes.

Songs cut on staffs, in runes, 186, 198
Baneful runes cut on a bewitched log of wood, 230, 231
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Sagas Quoted.

The saga of the Bandamenn, 29
of Bodmod, Grimulf, and Gerpir, 25
of Eric the Earl, 51
of Grim who slew Hallmund, 188
of the heath-slayings, 86

The saga of the Laxdale-men, 19

Settlings of land in Iceland, 10, 11, 12, 16, 17

Ships and their outfit.

Boat, ten oars aboard, 22, 227
Boat-stand, 20, and passim
Beaks, 115
Bark (karfi), of sixteen oars aboard, 46, 52, 62
Bulwark, 3
Forecastle, 3
Grapplings, 33
Gunwale, 147
Row-barge, 115
Sail, 16, 41
Ship shield-hung from stem to stern, 52
stained above sea, 52
cleared from stem to stern, 3
stem, stern, 3, 52
Viking-ship, 1
War-ship, 6
Work in connection with ship:
baling, 41, 42, 45
pumping, 44
rolling ship ashore, 174
launching of, 46
building of, 25
Yard, 16

Skalds named in the Saga.

Arnor Earls'-skald, 179
Bessi, Skald-Torfa's son, 34, 71
Grettir Asmundson.
Hallmund, 161, 186-187
Odd the Foundling-Skald, 34, 87-88
Skald-Torfa, 34
Svein of Bank, 135
Thormod Coalbrowskald, 77

Social Stations.

Bonder, 14, and passim
Chapmen, passim
Court-owner, an owner of all such houses in a town as form the
surrounding of a court, 71
Earl, a man next after the king in dignity, 14, 50 sqq.,
69 sqq., 112
Free-men, 53
Godi, a chief combining in his person the religious and administrative
authority of the district over which he ruled, 11, 26
Hand-maid, 220, 221
Herdsman. See Occupations.
Hersir, a man next to an earl in dignity, 14
Home-folk, 54
Home-women, 54
House-carle, passim.

Sports and Games.

Ball-play, 34
Ball, 35
Bat, 35
Horse-fight, 87, 88
Knave-game (note), 208
Sports at Heron-ness thing, 210, 212
Swimming, 117, 167, 220
Tale-game, 208
Wrestling, 211, 212, 216

Things, or Public Law-assemblages.

The Althing, passim
The Thing of Kialarness, 19
Heron-ness, 210
Hunawater, 129, 150
Trade on England, 67

Trolls and Evil Wights.

See Hallmund's song, 187
Troll-carle, 197
Troll-wife, 194, 195
The wight that slew Glam, 96, 99, 100
Troth, to sit in troth for three winters, 77
[300] Twainmonth, the second month in the year, corresponding to our
September (Aug. 24—Sept. 22).
Wadmall as an article of trade, 40, 220

Weapons and War-gear.

Axe, passim.
Barb-end, 57
Barb, 57, 132
Buckler, 142
Byrni, 57
Chopper, 194
Cheek-pieces of a helmet, 122
Glaive (heft-sax), 197
Grigs of the sword, 241
Hand-axe, 141
Helmet, 57, 85, 122, 132
Shield (iron-rimmed, inlaid), 72, 122, 128, 175, 203, 241
Socket inlaid with silver, 141
Socket-nail, 141
Short-sword, Karrs-loom, 49, and passim
Spear, great without barbs, 141
with broad barbs, 56, 132
Stones used for missiles, 8
Spear-head, 57
Sword, girt with a sword, 132, 241
Jokul's gift, the heirloom of the kinsmen of Ingimund the
Old, 40, and passim.
Weird of a ghost, 109
of a sorceress, 229
Winter-nights, the first days in winter about Oct. 14, 145

Witchcraft and Sorcery.

Gale of wind brought on by evil craft, 236-236 237
Witchcraft, an illegal means for overcoming an enemy, 244, 250
Witchcraft wrought into a log of wood, the manner thereof, 230, 231
Wound growing deadly through the effect of evil and witchcrafty
runes, 244, 250
Wooing, 6, 7, 19
[301] PERIPHRASTIC EXPRESSIONS IN THE SONGS. An Axe: Battle ogress, rock-troll, 38
Blood: Rain of swords, 15
Cave (Hallmund's): Kettle, where waters fall from great
ice-wall, 160
Fight: Dart's breath, 15
Dart-shower, 43
Gale of death, 15
Gale of swords, 95
Hilda's[22] weather, 95
Iron-rain, 234
Mist's[22] mystery, 95
Odin's gale; Odin's storm, 143, 190
Shield-fire's thunder, 6
Shield-rain, 215
Spears' breath, 170
Spear-shower, 138
Spear-storm, 234
Sword-shower, 81
Gallows: Sigar's meed for lovesome deed, (Sigarr hung Hag-bard
the Viking for having befooled his daughter), 157
Gold: Deep sea's flame, 137
Dragon's lair, 49
Serpent's bed, 215
The flame of sea, 49
Wave's flashing flame, 49
Worm's bed, 41
Worm-land, 131
Grettir (an Eddaic name for a serpent): Fell-creeping lad, 86
Head: Thoughts' burg, 76 Man: Elm-stalk, 136
Gold-scatterer, 131
Helm-stalk, 136
Jewel-strewer, 30
Lessener of the flame of sea, 49
Lessener of waves' flashing flame, 49
Ring-bearer, 68
Ring-strewer, 30
Scatterer of serpent's bed, 215
Wormland's haunter, 137
Snatcher of worm's bed, 41
Mouth: Tofts of tooth-hedge, 124 Sailor: He who decks the reindeer's side that 'twixt ness and
ness doth glide, 43
Rider of wind-driven steed, 41 Sea-steeds' rider, 81; Shield: Roof of war, 215
Spear-walk, 12
Ship: Reindeer that 'twixt ness and ness doth glide, 4343
Sea-steed, 81
Steed of the rollers, 17
Wind-driven steed, 41
Skald: Giver forth of Odin's