In the Stockholm edition of Snorro’s Edda, it was Hilda, by her
enchantments, who raised the slain, as fast as they fell, to renew the
combat, and the episode of Ivar Liomi and the Christian additions do
not occur. Allusions to Hogni’s daughter Hilda occur in the stanzas of
Eyvind Skaldaspiller (Saga of Harald Harfagri, chap. 13), and in those
of Einar Skalaglum (Harald Grafeld’s Saga, chap. 6, and Olaf
Tryggvason’s Saga, chap. 18).
Footnote 213:
For descriptions and readings of these see Munch’s Chronicon Manniæ,
Christiania, 1860; Cumming’s Runic and other Monumental Remains in the
Isle of Man, London, 1857; and Worsaae’s Danes and Northmen, London,
1852.
Footnote 214:
It is no less singular to find a Rune-inscribed stone so far up the
valley of the Spey as Knockando in Morayshire. See Sculpt. Stones of
Scotland, i. p. 61.
Footnote 215:
This fragment, which is now in the museum of the Society of
Antiquaries of Scotland, is figured and described by Professor George
Stephens of Copenhagen, in the “Illustreret Tidende” for 20th July
1873, and will be included in the third volume of his great work on
the Runic monuments of Scandinavia and England, now preparing for the
press.
Footnote 216:
See the note at p. 107 of the Saga.
Footnote 217:
“Description by Ahmed Ibn Fozlan (an eye-witness) of the ceremonies
attending the incremation of the dead body of a Norse chief, written
in the early part of the 10th century. Translated from Holmboe’s
Danish version of the Arabic original, with notes on the origin of
cremation and its continuance, by Joseph Anderson, Keeper of the
Museum.” Printed in the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of
Scotland, vol. ix.
Footnote 218:
A large number of these stone kettles, made of steatite, and furnished
with iron “bows,” exactly like those of our modern cast-iron pots, are
preserved in the Christiania Museum, filled, as they were found, with
the burned bones of the former owners. Sometimes the sword of the
owner is found twisted and broken, and laid on the top of the bones.
Footnote 219:
There are upwards of 400 of these brooches in the museum at Stockholm,
nearly half as many in Christiania, and a large number in Copenhagen.
Footnote 220:
The other one is in the museum at Copenhagen, and is figured in
Worsaae’s Danes and Northmen, p. 255.
Footnote 221:
Mem. de la Soc. Antiq. du Nord, 1840-44, p. 79.
Footnote 222:
For full details of this remarkable group of interments, see Wilson’s
Prehistoric Annals of Scotland, vol. ii. p. 303, and Journal of the
British Archæological Association, vol. ii. p. 329.
Footnote 223:
The events narrated in this chapter are told with greater fulness of
detail in the extracts from the Flateyjarbók given in the Appendix.
Footnote 224:
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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