_Hall of the DÌs._ It is not clear who the _dÌs_ was, as the word is used rather loosely for supernatural female beings. Another reference to the _Hall of the DÌs_ occurs in _Ynglingasaga_, ch. 33. One of the goddesses (Freyja?) may be meant; or it may be the guardian spirit of the family. VIII. _Land of the Saxons._ Cf. the _Th·ttr of Nornagest_, ch. 10 and note. _Sifka and Hlˆth._ The names here mentioned, together with _Heithrek_ and _Angantyr_, are believed by some scholars to recur in _Widsi˛_, l. 116, where we find _Heaoric and Sifecan, Hlie and Incgeneow_, mentioned as being among the followers of Eormenric. These names clearly come from Gothic tradition, but the passage would seem to suggest that _Sifeca_ was a man, the Sibich of the German poems. Cf. Chambers, _Widsith_, p. 32. For the name Lotherus in Saxo, see note to ch. 12, p. 242. _Holmgarth_, i.e. Novgorod. IX. _Wendland_, i.e. the 'Land of the Slavs' (Anglo-Saxon _Weonodland_). After the expansion of the Slavs, from the fifth century onwards, this term came to denote an enormous expanse of country, including the coast of Eastern Germany, to which it is applied in the account of the voyage of Wulfstan in Alfred's translation of _Orosius_. In earlier times, when the Goths still occupied Poland and Galicia, the Slavs were restricted to the regions east of these countries. _His horse fell dead._ Here the point of the story seems to be missed, or at least not clearly expressed. According to Hˆfund's fifth maxim (see ch. 6), Heithrek was not to ride his best horse when he was in a hurry. X. _They had a daughter._ From our text it would appear that Hervˆr was the daughter of Sifka; but the end of ch. 9 is probably a late addition to the text. In the text printed by Rafn, Hervˆr is expressly stated to be a daughter of Hergerth. _Ormar_ is presumably to be identified with the _Wyrmhere_ mentioned in _Widsi˛_, l. 119, in connection with the war waged by the Goths against the Huns in defence of their ancient fatherland, round the forest of the Vistula. _Gestumblindi._ For this curious name, cf. the _Gestiblindus Gothorum rex_ mentioned by Saxo Grammaticus, _Dan. Hist._, p. 198 ff.