23. _Cast she down her anchor_, etc. vv. 23, 24 are the almost invariable formula for the landing in the Faroese ballads. They are practically identical with v. 46 of _Olufu KvÊi_ and vv. 24, 25 of the _KvÊi of Ormar Torolvsson_. Cf. also _Sigmundar KvÊi_, v. 32; _Br˙sajˆkils KvÊi_, v. 41 and the _KvÊi of Alvur Kongur_, vv. 24-26 and _Sjurar KvÊi_ (_Hˆgna T·ttur_, vv. 71-73). 25. _Herd and fee._ Either the word _jÊge_ or the word _fÊ_ seems to have an unusual sense here. 28. _Though quake now fell and fold._ The original (_kyk gekk jˆr · fold_) is not clear. I have merely adopted Grundtvig's translation of Hammershaimb's early text in the _Antiq. TÌdss_. 1849-1851. The 1855 ed. substitutes _hon_ for _jˆr_ which is better. 35. _All in the middle_, etc. There is obviously a lacuna or transference of some kind here. For this and the following verses, cf. _Olufu KvÊi_, vv. 26, 27, which are identical except the names. Indeed it is a common formula in the Faroese and Danish Ballads, and occurs in the _KvÊi of Ormar Torolvsson_, v. 26; and the _KvÊi of Alvur Kongur_, v. 33. 36. _A hundred men and five_--a stock number in the Faroese ballads. Cf. the _KvÊi of Ormar Torolvsson_, v. 27, where we are also told that the King sat at the board 'with a hundred men and five.' Cf. also _Olufu KvÊi_, v. 27. 37. _Mead or wine_, etc. Cf. _Sjurar KvÊi_ (III, _Hˆgna T·ttur_, v. 181). 52. Perhaps we should here again assume a lacuna or transposition. _Uppland_ is the old name for the modern province of Upsala in Sweden. 60. _Her cheeks they are as red and white_, etc. Cf. the _KvÊi of Finnur hin FrÌi_, v. 18. Cf. also the old Celtic romance of the _Fate of the Sons of Usna_: "I should like," said Deirdre, "that he who is to be my husband should have these three colours: his hair as black as the raven: his cheeks red as the blood: his skin like the snow" (Joyce's translation). Cf. also Grimm's story of _Little Snowdrop_. 68. _Forth then when his frigate_, etc. vv. 68-84 are found in almost identical form in _Olufu KvÊi_, vv. 22-35. 69. _Angantyr was the first to light_, etc. A common ballad formula, both Faroese and Danish. 88. _I would not that lady Ingibjˆrg hear_, etc. Lit. "the lady Ingibjˆrg will learn that I fled." There is a suppressed condition. "If I let you fight, the lady Ingibjˆrg would learn, etc." Hammershaimb's text (_Antiq. TÌdss._) v. 37, has a negative and no condition: "The lady Ingibjˆrg shall not learn," etc. 97. _O Hjalmar, give me now a drink._ This incident appears to be taken from _Gunnlaugs Saga_, ch. 12. THE FAROESE GATU RIMA