_Vikinga-boeli_, a vik-ing station, or haunt of the sea-rovers, who harried the coasts wherever they could find plunder. From _vik_, a bay or creek, are formed the nouns _viking_, denoting the species of plundering, and _vikingr_, denoting a person engaged in it. Footnote 225: Moeri, a province of Norway, lying southwards of Drontheim (Saga of Harald Harfagri, chap. x). The word signifies a plain bordering on the sea. Footnote 226: “He was called Torf-Einar because he cut peat for fuel.” (See Appendix). Footnote 227: A son of Harald Harfagri. Footnote 228: Rinansey, North Ronaldsay. Munch suggests that the form Ronansey implies its derivation from St. Ronan or Ninian, and that the name is therefore older than the Norse colonisation. St. Ninian is often called St. Ringan, and Ringansey seems quite a probable derivation of Rinansey. Footnote 229: This is represented in the Saga of King Harald as a fine exacted by Harald for the death of his son, and paid by the Earl for the _bœndr_ or freeholders who surrendered their odal lands to him in consideration of being freed from this payment (see Appendix). Footnote 230: A poem by Thorbiörn Hornklofe, quoted in the Saga of Harald Harfagri. Footnote 231: Son and successor of Harald Harfagri. Footnote 232: They fell in battle in England, with King Eric Bloodyaxe, and “five kings,” as told in the Saga of Hakon the Good. The place where this battle was fought has not been satisfactorily identified. Footnote 233: