[Footnote 115: _Gest. Dan._, p. 56. Elton's translation of the passage is as follows: "When he was triumphing in these deeds of prowess, a beast of the forest furnished him fresh laurels. For he met a huge bear in a thicket, and slew it with a javelin; and then bade his companion Hjalti put his lips to the beast and drink the blood that came out, that he might be the stronger afterwards. For it was believed that a draught of this sort caused an increase of bodily strength."--_Elton's Saxo_, p. 69.] [Footnote 116: See pp. 36 ff.] [Footnote 117: See, for instance, _Sc. Folkl._, p. 253, where dragons are said to have been pierced "under their shoulders to the heart."] [Footnote 118: Finnur Jónsson has also been struck by the similarity between the story connected with Bjarki's birth and the second story in the _rímur_, in which Hjalti slays a bear. He says, "I rimerne (V, 5-14) er der endnu tale om en 'gråbjörn.'"--_Hrs. Bjark._, Introd., p. 22.] [Footnote 119: _Hrs. Bjark._, Introd., p. 18.] [Footnote 120: See p. 16.] [Footnote 121: The dogs are here said to be the herdsmen's dogs, in conformity with the spirit of the story in its new setting and to differentiate the story from what it is in the place whence the author of the _rímur_ took it.] [Footnote 122: _Hrs. Bjark._, Introd., p. 22.] [Footnote 123: See pp. 50 ff.] [Footnote 124: For further proof of this, see pp. 81 ff.] [Footnote 125: See p. 11.] [Footnote 126: In the foregoing no implication is intended as to the identity of the story of Beowulf's fight with Grendel and Saxo's story of Bjarki's slaying the bear. The result, however, of the discussion is to establish the priority of Saxo's story to that in the _Hrólfssaga_; hence, an attempt to identify Bjarki's exploit with Beowulf's exploit must consist principally in an attempt to identify the Grendel story with Saxo's version of the corresponding story told about Bjarki.] [Footnote 127: I, pp. 175-78.] [Footnote 128: "Det ældste vidnesbyrd om sagnet bar vi i den såkaldte _Vọluspá in skamma_; det hedder her: 'eru vọlur allar frá Viðolfi.' Denne troldkvindernes stamfader er identisk med troldmanden Vit[h]olphus i Sakses norske saga; og når vi ser, hvorledes digtets troldmandsremser nævner kendte sagnfigurer--Heiðr i _Voluspå_; Hrossþjófr i Sakses norske Baldersagn--, tör vi også i Viðolfr se hentydning til en bestemt digtning, i.e., til dette norske Skjoldungsagn. Desværre kendes digtets alder ikke videre nöje; det er efterhedensk og er digtet som et tillæg til _Voluspå_, sikkert efter at dette digt var blevet udvidet med dværgremserne. (F. Jónsson, _Oldn. lit. hist._, I, 204, gör det til islandsk og sætter det til 2. halvdel af 12te årh.)."--Olrik's note.] [Footnote 129: See pp. 9, 15, 24.] [Footnote 130: _St. Sag. Eng._, pp. 120-21.] [Footnote 131: See R. Imelmann's edition, pp. 45 ff.]