_In the King's retinue there were seven men_, etc. In the text (_a_) of this saga printed in Rafn's edition (_Fornaldar Sˆgur_, I, p. 462), there are said to be twelve men here. This is no doubt the right figure, twelve being the regular number in the judicial councils of the North, whether historical or legendary. Thus, e.g. in the _Saga of Olaf the Holy_ (_Heimskringla_), ch. 96 we read of a council of twelve sages (_spekingar_), whose duty it was to advise the Swedish king, especially in the administration of justice. Similar councils existed in the Danish settlements in England. Thus Lincoln and Stamford had each a council of twelve (cf. Stubbs, _Const. Hist._, I, p. 106, and n. 4). We may compare the twelve priests who officiated in the sacrifices at MÊren (cf. the _Saga of Olaf the Holy, Heimskr_. ch. 115), and the story of the twelve gods who were appointed by Othin as temple priests (_hof-goar_) to keep up the sacrifices and administer justice among men; cf. _Ynglingasaga_, ch. 2 (_HyndluljÛ_, str. 30; _Gautrekssaga_, ch. 7). In the Irish _Lay of Magnus Barelegs_, the Norwegians are referred to as _Clann an d· [.c]o[.m]airlea[.c] dÈag_ ('children or clan of the twelve councillors'). Cf. _Laoi[.d] Ma[.g]nius Moir_ (_Reliques of Irish Poetry_, by Charlotte Brooke, Dublin 1789, p. 274). _King Heithrek worshipped Frey._ One text quoted by Rafn (_Verelius_) has _Freyja_ for _Frey_. The boar appears in stories relating to both these deities, e.g. _Gylfaginning_, ch. 49; _Sk·ldskaparm·l_, ch. 35; _HyndluliÛ_, str. 5, 7. XI. _I would that I had that_, etc. On these riddles see Heusler, _Eddica Minora_, p. xc ff.; 'Diealtnordischen R‰tsel' in _Zeitschrift des Vereins f¸r Volkskunde_, XI, p. 117 ff.; Tupper, _Modern Language Notes_, 18, p. 103; _The Riddles of the Exeter Book_, p. lii, etc. In the original the riddles are all in verse, while the King's answers, except the refrain with which they begin ("Your riddle is a good one," etc.) are in prose. _You went over a bridge_, etc. The metrical text given by Rafn (_Fornaldar Sˆgur_, I, p. 466), has: "A bird flew above thee, a fish swam beneath thee, thou did'st go over a bridge." The prose text given on the same page has: "Thou did'st go over a bridge, and the course of the river was beneath thee, but birds were flying over thy head and on both sides of thee, and that was their road." _Delling's doorway._ Delling (perhaps from an obsolete word _dallr_, 'bright, shining') is mentioned in _Vaf˛r˙˛nism·l_, str. 25, as the 'father of Day.' Possibly he may originally have been a personification of day itself. The expression "before Delling's doorway" occurs also in _H·vam·l_, str. 160, where it has been thought to mean 'at sunrise.' See also the genealogy in _Hversu Noregr Bygist_, ch. I (_Fornaldar Sˆgur_, II, p. 6), where a certain Svanhild is said to be the daughter of Day, the son of Delling, and of SÛl (i.e. the sun), the daughter of Mundilfari (cf. _Gylfaginning_, ch. II).