VI. _Helgi_ is known elsewhere as Helgi Haddingjaskati, e.g. in the short text called _Hversu Noregr Bygist_, ch. 2 (_Fornaldar Sˆgur_, II, p. 7). According to the prose at the end of _Helgakvia Hundingsbana_ II, Helgi Haddingjaskati and Kara were reincarnations of Helgi Hundingsbani and Sigr˙n, the hero and heroine of this poem. Their story was given in a poem called _K·ruljÛ_ which is now lost. See however Vigf˙sson and Powell, _Corpus Poeticum Boreale_, vol. I, pp. 129 and 130. _On the frozen surface of Lake Vener._ This story is perhaps taken from that of the battle related in _Sk·ldskaparm·l_, ch. 43 and _Ynglingasaga_, ch. 33. Cf. _Beowulf_, l. 2392 ff. _Kara._ For the form _Lara_ which appears in the printed editions see p. 62, note, above. In the prose at the end of _Helgakvia Hundingsbana_ II, Kara is called a valkyrie. VIII. _Hagal._ The story of Hagal and Blind is given also at the beginning of _Helgakvia Hundingsbana_ II; but here the person disguised as a grinding-maid is Helgi, the hero of the poem. X. _Who was also called Bavis_; cf. _Helgakv. Hund_. II, str. 2, where he is called _Blindr enn bˆlvÌsi_ ('skilled in harmful doings'). SAGA OF HERV÷R AND HEITHREK I. _Finnmark_, i.e. the northernmost part of the Scandinavian Peninsula. _Jˆtunheimar_, i.e. the homes of the _jˆtnar_ or giants. This name occurs frequently in Norse stories, though it is not elsewhere connected with Finnmark. _Ymisland_, i.e. the land of _›mir_; see below. _Halogaland_, i.e. the northern part of Norway stretching from about lat. 65∞ as far as Finnmark. _Guthmund._ Cf. the _Th·ttr of Nornagest_, ch. 1 and note. _Glasisvellir._ Cf. the _Th·ttr of Nornagest_, ch. 1, and note. _Fields of immortality_, i.e. lit. 'Fields of the not dead' (_Ûdainsakr_). Cf. the _Saga of EirÌkr VÌfˆrla_, ch. 1, and the _Saga of H·lfdan Eysteinsson_, ch. 1. See also Saxo Grammaticus, _Dan. Hist._, p. 129. _Hˆfund._ The name means lit. 'Judge.' _Ymir_, i.e. the old 'Rime-giant,' the first being created out of Chaos, from whom the giants sprang; cf. _Vˆlusp·_, str. 3; _Vaf˛r˙˛nism·l_, str. 21; _GrÌmnism·l_, str. 40; _HyndluljÛ_, str. 33; _Gylfaginning_, chs. 5-8. _Starkath Aludreng._ See _Gautreks Saga_, ch. 3, according to which this Starkath is the grandfather of his more famous namesake, for whom see the _Th·ttr of Nornagest_, ch. 7 and note. See also Saxo Grammaticus, _Dan. Hist._, pp. 224, 225. _Elivagar._ See _Vaf˛r˙˛nism·l_, str. 31; _Gylfaginning_, ch. 5; _Hymiskvia_, str. 5. _Alfheimar_, a name given to the region between the G¯taelv and the River Glommen, in the south-east of Norway (now mainly in Sweden). The royal family of this region is frequently mentioned in the history of Harold the Fairhaired and his father, and also in the stories of Sigurth Hring. See the _Th·ttr of Nornagest_, ch. 7 and note. _Ey-grim Bolm_, i.e. 'Grim of the Island of Bolm.' _Arngrim._ See Saxo Grammaticus, _Dan. Hist._, p. 203 ff.