Then Hjalmar died[4]. Odd brought the tidings to Sweden; and the King's daughter could not bear to live after Hjalmar, so she took her own life. Angantyr and his brothers were laid in a barrow in Sams¯ with all their weapons. [Footnote 1: Printed in Wimmer's _Oldnordisk LÊsebog_ (4th ed.) p. 29 ff. The poetry is also found, though with many divergent readings, in _÷rvar-Odds Saga_, ch. 14 _(Fornaldarsˆgur_, Vol. II, p. 217 ff.).] [Footnote 2: In late (paper) MSS. the following passage is here added.--"Angantyr said: 'It is my wish that if any of us escapes from here we should not rob one another of our weapons. If I die, I wish to have Tyrfing in the barrow with me. Odd likewise shall have his shirt and Hjalmar his weapons!' And they agreed that those who were left alive were to raise a barrow for the others." Then follows a long description of the fighting.] [Footnote 3: This poem is given more fully in _÷rvar-Odds Saga_ than in _Hervarar Saga_. The strophes which occur only in the former are marked with an asterisk. I have re-arranged the order of the stanzas, in regard to which there is considerable variation between the two texts.] [Footnote 4: In paper MSS. the following passage occurs here: "Odd remained there all night. In the morning he brought together the bodies of all the berserks and then set about building barrows. The islanders built chambers of great oaks as Odd directed them, and then piled up stones and sand on the top. They were strongly constructed, and it was a great achievement. Odd was busy at this work for a fortnight. Then he placed the berserks in with their weapons and closed the barrows. After this Odd took Hjalmar's body and carried it to a ship and conveyed it to Sweden."] PART II BALLADS BALLADS GENERAL INTRODUCTION I. The ballads of the Faroe Islands aroused the interest of Ole Worm as early as 1639; but the five ballads which he took down are no longer extant, and we know of them only from a reference by Peder Syv[1] towards the close of the seventeenth century. In 1673 Lucas Debes[2] wrote a description of the islands which contained an account of their dances and songs; but unfortunately he did not transcribe any of the ballads. Indeed the balladry and songs attracted little general attention till the close of the eighteenth century, when Jens Kristjan Svabo devoted himself to a careful study of the language and a collection of the ballads of his native Islands.