by E R Eddison
HANLOGALAND (Hálogaland): the northernmost folkland of Norw., mod. Helgeland 3; 9; 11; 15; 18–21; 25; 29; 31; 42; 43
HÁLS: see the Neck
HAMINGJA: see Luck
HAMRAMMR: see Shape-strong
HARALD GORMSON (Haraldr Gormsson): King of the Danes 90; makes Eyvind Braggart warder of his land against vikings 96. 249, 250, 251, 254, 277
HARALD GREYCLOAK (gráfeldr): King of Norway; s. of K. Eric Bloodaxe and Q. Gunnhild 125; fostered by Arinbiorn the Hersir 134, 163; A. joins him in Denmark 166; takes kingdom 194; betrayed and slain in battle against Earl Hakon at the Neck in the Limfirth 200. 251, 286
HARALD HAIRFAIR (hárfagri): King of Norway; takes heritage after his f., K. Halfdan the Black, and swears not to let cut nor comb his hair till he is sole K. over all Norway; called Harald Shockhead (H. lúfa); conquers the Uplands, Thrandheim, Naumdale, Halogaland, Northmere and Raumsdale 3; Kveldulf thinks he has ‘a load of luck’ 4; by a great victory off Solskel conquers Southmere; sets Earl Rognvald over Mere and Raumsdale; makes Oliver Hnufa his skald; lays under him the Firths and Fialir 5; his policy and overweening might drives many great men from the land abroad; sends messengers to Kveldulf 6; ill content with his answer, but consents, by Oliver’s persuasions, to receive his son 7; Kveldulf’s and Thorolf’s respective opinions of him 8–9; takes Bard Bryniolfson into his bodyguard; sets great account by his skalds 11; takes Thorolf into his bodyguard 12; fights his last battle within the land at Hafrsfirth, after which he finds none to withstand him 14; makes Thorolf a landed man, and gives him great revenues north in Halogaland; his loving kindness toward Th. 15; guests with Th. at Torgar; vexed at the display of power, but appeased by Th.’s gift of a ship 19; guests with Hildirid’s sons and gives ear to their slanders 20–22; receives the Finn-scat from Thorgils the Yeller, and is better disposed towards Thorolf 23–4; Th.’s truth and loyalty to him 26; drinks in fresh slanders from Hildirid’s sons; next year sees Th. and receives the scat from him; offers Th. the command of his bodyguard, so that “I may overlook thee night and day” 27–8; on Th.’s refusal, takes away his revenues and gives them to Hildirid’s sons 29; blames them next year for the poorness of the scat 30; accepts their explanation (fresh slanders against Th.) 31; sends Hallvard and his b. to seize Th.’s ship 32; Th.’s saying, “Good it is…with the King for partner” 33; 34; Kveldulf’s saying of him 36; gives Hallvard and Sigtrygg leave to take Th.’s life if they can 37; his scoffing estimate of their chances against Th.; his own swift action with forced marches by sea and land from Hladir to Sandness 38; offers peace to Th. but not to his men; bids fire the house 39; Th. falls at his feet; his saying on Thorolf 40; returns to Hladir; refuses to let Oliver and Eyvind go 41; gives Sandness to Eyvind 42; 43; holds out some hope of atonement for Thorolf if Kveldulf and Skallagrim will come and ask for it 45; Kveldulf’s saying when he hears Th. fell at his feet; Skallagrim will go to him 46; his reception of Sk.; his wrath, sends men after them to slay “that great baldhead” 47–9; Thorir the Hersir becomes his landed man 49; Duke Gutthorm his fosterfather 50; sends Hallvard and Sigtrygg to fetch G.’s sons 51; Skallagrim’s message to him 53; 54; seizes Kveldulf’s and Sk.’s lands and fee in Norway and persecutes their friends 58; gives orders for the slaying of Biorn Bryniolfson 64; 66; his seats or great houses; grows very old 68; loves Eric best of his sons 69; gives peace to Thorolf Skallagrimson at Eric’s asking, but warns E. against the kindred of Kveldulf 70–1; 98; sets his sons in power; and, when he has been seventy winters King, hands over the realm to Eric; gives his name to E.’s son; three years later dies in Rogaland and is laid in ho we beside Howesound 125; 134; 137; his unjust slaying of Th. recalled 138; his dealings with Vermland 166–7. xviii, xix, xx, xxxi. 253, 256, 257, 258, 260, 261, 263, 265, 270
HARALD HARDRADA (harðráði): 273
HARALD KNUTSON: see Gold-Harald
HAREK (Hárekr): see Hildirid’s sons
HAUSKULD (Hauskuldr): (for whom see Laxdæla, and Njal’s Saga), s. of Dale-Koll 186
HAVENFELL (Hafnarfjöll): Icel., a mountain S.W. of Hvanneyri, facing across Burgfirth to Burg 55
HAZELLING A FIELD: 280, 292
HEAD, SIR EDMUND: 237–8
HEATH, THE (Heiðr): = Mossfellsheath 185
HEGG (Heggr): of Heggstead 75–6
HEGGSTEAD (Heggsstaðir): Icel. 75
HELGA: mother of Bard Bryniolfson 9
HELGA: d. of Olaf Feilan 203
HELGA: d. of Thorfinn of Eidwood; suffers a sickness as a result of love-runes unskilfully scored; healed by Egil 174–5, 182
HELGA THE FAIR (en fagra): of Gunnlaug’s Saga; d. of Thorstein Egilson 204; 223. 307
HELGAKVIÐA: 246, 248
HELGI: s. of Ketil Haeng 44
HELGI: f. of Einar Jingle-scale 199
HELGI: grandson of Thord of Aurland 78
HELGI THE LEAN (enn magri): xxiii
HELGI NJALSON (Njálsson): 282
HELGI: s. of Red-Biorn 202
HELGI: s. of Thorfinn of Eidwood 175
HELL (Hel): the Goddess of death 86; 143; 193
HELSINGLAND (Helsingjaland): mod. Helsingland, in Sweden 6, 25
HEN-THORIR (Hænsa-Þórir): 265
HERDHOLT (Hjarðarholt): Icel., the seat of Olaf the Peacock 186; 187
HERDLA (Herðla): Norw., a little island (mod. Herlö) in the Hjeltefjord; a manor of K. Eric’s 126–7; 130
HERDLA-WEIR (Herðluver): 127
HERIOLF (Herjólfr): s. of Ketil Haeng 44
HERLAUG (Herlaugr): king of Naumdale, goes into a howe with eleven men 3
HERLAUG: s. of Hakon the Earl of Hladir; falls at Solskel 5
HERODOTUS: 246
HERSIR: 253–4
HERSTEIN (Hersteinn): s. of Earl Atli the Slender 2
HILDIR: of Hildisey 44
HILDIRID (Hildiríðr): d. of Hogni of Leka; Biorgolf makes her a ‘loose bridal’; after B.’s death, turned out by Bryniolf; returns to Leka where she rears up her sons and inherits her father’s wealth 10. 260
HILDIRID’S SONS (Hildiríðarsynir): Harek and Hraerek, sons of Hildirid by Biorgolf of Torgar; little men, fair of face, well witted; their half-brother Bryniolf thinks them of small account and denies them any share in their father’s heritage 10; they are again denied by Bard 13; and by Thorolf Kveldulfson, who says baldly that they are bastards 17; bid K. Harald to a feast and slander Th. to him, mixing skilfully truth with lies 20–2; find favour with the K. 23; suspected by Oliver Hnufa 24; Th. hears of their slanders 26; they tell the K. that Thorolf withholds part of the Finnscat 27; Th.’s saying of them 28; the K. hands over to them all Th.’s revenues; their poor success as scat-gatherers adroitly excused by fresh slanders against Th. 29–31; which drive the K. to violent measures against him 32; slain at Torgar by Ketil Haeng 43; their wickedness recalled 138. 262, 263, 265
HILDISEY: Icel. 44
HILL OF LAWS: 306
HIORLEIF (Hjörleifr): the settler 43. 255, 257, 298
HIORLEIF: s. of Thorstein Egilson 204
HIRD: 259
HISING (Hísing): at the mouth of the Gaut-Elf 32; 37
HLADIR (Hlaðir): Norw., the seat of a great line of Earls 5; 38; 41. 253, 256
HLOKK (Hlökk): see Valkyries
HOD (Höð): an isle in Norw. 151
HOF: Icel., in Rangrivervales 44
HÖFUÐLAUSN: 141–5. xxx. 288–91; 300, 302
HOGNI (Högni): f. of Hildirid 10
HOGNI: of Njála xxiv
HOLM (Hólmr): Icel. 116
HOLMGANG: 292–3
HOLMSTEIN (Hólmsteinn): s. of Earl Atli the Slender 2
HOLYFELL (Helgafell): xxiv
HOME-MEAD: 307
HOMER: xxix. 237–8, 240
HORDALAND (Hörðaland): Norw., the folkland S. of Sogn: 14; 30; 32; 68; 70; 71; 78; 117; 125; 150; 156; 162; 183; 194; 204
HORSE-FIGHTS: 308
HOUSECARLES: 254
HOUSE-THING: 285
HOWARD OF ICEFIRTH (Hávarðr):
267
HOWES (Haugar): Icel. 57
HOWESOUND (Haugasund): mod. Haugesund near Stavanger, the burial place of K. Harald Hairfair 125
HRAEREK (Hrærekr): see Hildirid’s sons
HRAFN: the first Speaker of the Law in Iceland; s. of Ketil Haeng 44; 58
HRAFN THE SKALD (Skald-Hrafn): of Gunnlaug’s Saga 204; 223. 260, 293
HRAFNHILD (Hrafnhildr): d. of Ketil Haeng of Hrafnista 43
HRAFNISTA: Norw. 1; 9; 43
HRAFNKEL FREY’S-PRIEST (Hrafnkell Freysgoði): xxiii, xxx. 258, 267
HRAFNTOFTS (Hrafntoptir): Icel. 44
HRIFLA: s. of Thorstein Egilson 204
HRING (Hringr): a Welsh Earl, brother of Earl Adils, pays scat to K. Athelstane 99; deserts to Olaf the Scots-King 100; rides forward with his b. and their host by night to Winaheath in hope to take King A.’s men at unawares 105; draws up his battle against the vikings; slain by Thorolf Skallagrimson 106–7; 110
HRÍSAR: see Bushes
HRÍSBRU: see Bushbridge
HROALD (Hróaldr): Earl; f. of Thorir the Hersir 2; 5; 198. 253
HROLLAUG (Hrollaugr): king of Naumdale; ‘rolls out of kingdom’ into earldom, and gives up his realm to K. Harald 3. 256
HROMUND (Hrómundr): brother of Grim the Halogalander 116
HRUT HERIOLFSON (Hrútr): 271, 284
HUMBER MOUTH (Humrumynni): 135
HUNDRED: 262
HUNTHIOF (Húnþjófr): king of Northmere; falls in battle against K. Harald 3; saying on him by his s., Solvi Klofi 4
HVANNEYRI: Icel., on Burgfirth near the mouth of the r. Whitewater 55. v. 268, 299
HVITÁ, HVÍTÁRVELLIR: see Whitewater, Whitewater-meads
ICELAND (Ísland): 6; 43–4; 49; 54; 58–9; 65–6; 70; 72; 74; 77; 112; 115–6; 124; 132; 134–5; 148; 150; 159; 164; 166; 184; 186; 192; 194; 201; 222; 223. Int. and Notes passim. Discovery of xviii, 258
ICELANDIC: 229; words in English, of I. origin, ibid.
ILLUGI THE BLACK (Illugi svarti): f. of Gunnlaug the Wormtongue 116. 284
INGIBIORG (Ingibjörg): d. of K. Harald Hairfair 42
INGIRID (Ingiríðr): Q. of K. Olaf the Quiet 78
INGOLF ARNARSON (Ingólfr Arnarson, i.e. son of Örn): the settler 43; 49; 54. 255, 258, 266, 298
INGS: 307
INGUNN: wife of Ketil Haeng 44
IRELAND (Írland): 6; 184
IRI (Íri): a (doubtless Irish) freedman of Thorstein Egilson’s 215
IRISH: xxii. 298, 307, 309
JAMTALAND: mod. Jamtland 6; 25
JARDLANGSTEAD (Jarðlangsstaðir): Icel. 56
JOFRID (Jófríðr): d. of Gunnar Hlifarson, weds Thorstein Egilson 203; 204
JOMSBURG Vikings (Jómsborg): 251, 261, 274, 276, 277, 305, 311
JORUND THE PRIEST (Jörundr Goði): 44
JUTLAND (Jótland): 93; 96; 115
JUTLAND-SIDE (Jótlandssíða): the western seaboard of Jutland 97
KARI (Kári): see Berdla-Kari
KARI: of Njála xxx. 311
KEEL, THE (Kilir): 25. xviii. 263
KELTIC INFLUENCE: xxix–xxx, xxxiii. 298
KER, W. P.: xxviii. 239. 306
KETIL BLUND (Ketill Blundr): 74
KETIL THE FRANKLIN (hauðr): of K. Eric’s bodyguard; slain by Egil 123; 124
KETIL GUFA: 184–5
KETIL HAENG (hængr): of Hrafnista i; 9; 43; 146
KETIL HAENG: grandson of Κ.H. of Hrafnista, avenges Thorolf Kveldulfson and fares to Iceland 43; dwells at Hof in Rangrivervales; his children 44
KETIL KEELFARER (kjölfari): 54
KEYSERLING, COUNT HERMANN: xxvii. 272
KIARTAN (Kjartan): (of the Laxdœla Saga), s. of Olaf the Peacock 186. xxvii
KINGS: xviii. 253; method of addressing 261
KIOTVI THE WEALTHY (Kjötvi enn auðgi): flees after Hafrsfirth 14
KIRIALALAND (Kirjálaland): 25; 30
KIRIALS (Kirjálar): 263
KJÖLEN: 263
KLEON: the Athenian demagogue 282
KNARRARNESS (Knarrarnes): Icel. 55; 59
KNOLL, THE (Hváll): Icel. 44
KNOLLSLECH (Hválslækr): Icel. 44
KOLLSVEIN (Kollsveinn): s. of Thorstein Egilson 204
KONUNGSSKUGGSJÁ: 264
KORI (Kóri): a runaway thrall 184
KORISNESS (Kóranes): Icel. 184
KORMAK (Kormákr): the skald, of Kormak’s Saga; sister’s s. of Steinar 204. 260, 281, 293, 307, 309
KRUMMSKNOLLS (Krumshólar): Icel. 56
KRUMM’S WELL (Krumskelda): Icel. 133
KURLAND: 87; 105
KVELDULF (Kveldúlfr): Egil’s grandfather; a landed man in the Firths in Norway before the days of K. Harald Hairfair; weds Salbiorg, d. of his friend Berdla-Kari; origin of his name Kveld-Úlfr (Evening-Wolf); his two sons 1; 2; refuses to follow K. Audbiorn outside his own kingdom to fight against K. Harald 4; excuses himself from going to K. Harald, as being too old and must ‘give over serving of kings’ 6; persuaded by Oliver Hnufa to appease the K.’s wrath by sending one of his sons 7; nevertheless, dissuades Thorolf from going and forebodes that they will get “nought but ruin from that King.” his warnings to Th. 8–9; 12; learns from Thorgils the Yeller of the K.’s seizing of Thorolf’s ship; his fears for Thorolf, and counsel to him to leave the land 33; his last meeting with Th.; his sayings to him on the Κ., and his forebodings of disaster 36; a brisk man in his old age; picks men of great strength and prowess for his following 37; at news of Th.’s slaying, takes to his bed for grief and old age; his stave on Th.’s fall; questions Oliver closely on what befell at Sandness 45; his saying on hearing that Th. fell at the K.’s feet; will not go to the K. to ask boot for Th. 46; 47; glad at the failure of Skallagrim’s journey to the Κ.; decides with Sk. to go to Iceland; Thorir the Hersir his fosterson 49; sets sail and lies in the Solunds at the mouth of the Sogn Firth 50; holds espial, and intercepts Hallvard and Sigtrygg on their voyage from the Wick 51; runs berserk and slays Hallvard and many others 52; falls weak again after the fight and lies in his bed; his charge to his shipmates in case he should die before reaching Iceland 53; dies, and is shot overboard in his chest; comes ashore near Burg in Burgfirth 54; his lands and goods in Norway seized by the K. 58; 70. xix, xxvii. 244, 246, 254, 269
KVENLAND: 25–6; 30
KVENS (Kvenir): 263
KVIG (Kvígr): brother of Hegg of Heggstead 76
KYLFINGS (Kylfingar): 262
LADIR: see Hladir
LADY: great, (skörungr) 253
LAING, SAMUEL: 233–7
LAMBI: s. of Thord Lambison of Lambistead; avenges his father’s murder 184–5; his dealings with Steinar 217–8
LAMBISTEAD (Lambastaðir): Icel. 132–3; 184–5; 217
LANDED MAN: 253. 273–4
LANDNÁMA: xix. 266
LAND-SPIRITS (landvættir): 250
LAPLAND: 260
LATINISM: a capital fault in saga translation 236
LAUGARDALE (Laugardalr): Icel. 58
LAW: (brother-in-law, etc.) 262
LAXDÆLA: xvii
LAXFIT: Icel. 76
LAXRIVERDALE (Laxárdalr): Icel., in the Broadfirth Dales, the country of the Laxdæla Saga 186. xxiii, xxvii. 298
LEIRULECH (Leirulækr): Icel. 59; 116; 214; 218
LEIRUWICK (Leiruvágr): Icel. 203
LEKA: Norw., the home of Hildirid and her sons 10; 24
LIDANDISNESS (Liðandisnes): Norw., mod. Lindesnaes 35
LIMFIRTH (Limafjörðr): mod. Limfjord, in Denmark 165; 200. See also the Neck
LITHEND (Hlíðarendi): Icel. 44. 266
LJOT THE PALE (Ljótr enn bleiki): a berserk and holmgangsman 152; fights with and is slain by Egil 153–5; E. claims his inheritance 161–2; and is eventually paid by Arinbiorn 163. 292
LOFOTEN: 263
LÖGBERG: 306
LOKASENNA: 246, 272
LONDON (Lundúnir): 147
LONGFELLOW: 231
LONGHOLT (Langaholt): Icel. 216
LONG-SH
IP: 254
LONGWATER (Langá): Icel., an important river running into Burgfirth a few miles below Burg 56; 59; 116; 214; 216
LONGWATER (Langavatn): the lake from which the Langá flows 215
LONGWATER-FORCE (Langárfors): Icel. 116
LONG WORM, THE, (Ormr enn langi): 254
LOOSE BRIDAL: 260
LORD: 261
LUCK: 257
LUND (Lundr): mod. Lund, an ancient trading town 91
LYGRA: an isle in North Hordaland, where was a great house of K. Harald Hairfair’s 68
LYKE-HELP: 262, 287
MÁGR: i.e. kinsman-in-law 262
MARK: 260
MARK, THE: see Finnmark
MARKFLEET (Markarfljót): Icel. 44
MARKRIVER (Merkiá): Icel. 44
MASS-PRIEST: 310
MEADS: see Whitewater-meads
MELKORKA: d. of Muir-Kiartan the Erse-King 186
MERE (Mærr): see also Northmere and Southmere; folklands and ancient kingdoms in Norw. lying betwixt Naumdale on the N. and the Firths on the S. 3–5; 9; 150; 153; 155
MÉRIMÉE, PROSPER: 247
MIDFIRTHISLES (Miðfjarðareyjar): Icel., mod. Borgareyjar, in Burgfirth 59
MIDGARD’S WORM (Miðgarðsormr): xxvi–xxvii
MOEID (Móeiðr): d. of Hildir of Hildisey 44
MOEIDSKNOLL (Móeiðarhváll): Icel. 44
MONEY: 260
MORRIS, WILLIAM: 232–6
MOSEY (Mósey): mod. Mousa, in the Shetlands 64
MOSEY-BURG (Móseyjarborg): 64. 270
MOSLEM: fatalism of xxvii
MOSSFELL (Mosfell): Icel., the seat of Grim Svertingson, Egil’s s.-in-law 185; 203; 209; 219; 221–2
MOST-SOUND (Mostrarsund): a haven on the seaboard of Halland 34
MOTHER: calling after, 260
MUIR-KIARTAN (Mýrkjartan): the Erse-King 186
MUNODSNESS (Munoðarnes): Icel. 57
MURDER: 288
MYRES (Mýrar): the countryside N.W. of Burgfirth 57; 184; 213
MYRESMEN (Mýramenn): 75; 204; 223
NADDER (Naðr): 105; 109–10; 153. 281
NADDOD (Naddoðr): 258
NAUMDALE (Naumudalr): a folkland and ancient kingdom in Norw., N. of Thrandheim and Northmere and S. of Halogaland 3; 21; 23; 25; 38; 41
NAUMDALE folk (Naumdælafylki): 3
NAUSTANESS (Naustanes): close to Burg 133
NAUSTDALE (Naustdalr): Norw. 5
