Our suggestion recommends itself in this at least, that it brings about full harmony between the statements, here treated of, and the saga itself, for when Grettir left the land in 1011 he was fourteen years of age, and twenty years later, or 1031, he fell. How far his age thus given agrees or not with the decrepitude of his father, who died in 1015, having been apparently already a bedridden man for some time, is a matter of itself, and need not affect the accuracy of our suggestion, which, however, we only put forth as a conjecture, not having within reach the MSS. of Grettir’s saga. A critical examination of these might, perhaps, allow of a more positive discourse on this vexed point, which to all commentators on Grettir has hitherto remained an insoluble riddle.
P. 251, 1. 12. The original makes Asdis daughter of Skeggi the Short-handed. This is here corrected agreeably to Landnama, and other records of her family.
INDICES.
INDEX I.
* * * * *
PERSONAL NAMES.
Air (Loptr), alias Hallmund, the mountain
sprite, 160, 161, 162
Aldis Konal’s-daughter, called A. from Barra,
5, 18, 19
Aldis, Ufeigh Grettir’s daughter, 5, 27
Alf a-Dales, 5, 27
Ali, an house-carle of Thorbiorn Oxmain’s, 130,
131, 132
Alof Ingolf’s-daughter, wife of Eric Snare,
20
Angle. See Thorbiorn Angle.
Ari Marson, 80
Arinbiorn. See Arnbiorn.
Arnbiorn, kinsman of Thorfinn of Haramsey, Grettir’s
companion, 70, 71
Arngeir Berseson, father of Biorn Hitdale-champion,
170
Arni Jonsson, 277
Arnor Thorbiornson, 140-143
Arnor Thordson, called Earls’ skald (Jarlaskald),
178, 179, 180
Arnor Thorodson, called Hay-nose (heynef, or hynef,
Landnama), 89
Arnora, Thord Yeller’s daughter, 225
Asa, Ufeigh Grettir’s daughter, first wife of
Onund Treefoot, 5, 6,
18, 19
Asbiorn, Ufeigh Grettir’s son, 5
Asbrand Thorbrandson, 129
Asdis, Bard Jokulson’s daughter, the mother
of Grettir Asmundson,27,
28, 30, 33, 36, 40, 112, 133, 139,
142, 143, 204, 205, 246,
247, 251
Asdis Gamli’s-daughter, 251
Asgeir Audunson the older, called Madpate (son of
Audun Skokul,
al. Onund Treefoot), 20, 79, 83
Asgeir Audunson the younger, grandson of the preceding,
called Madpate
34, 77, 83, 151
Asgrim Ellida-Grimson, 16, 159
Asgrim Ondottson, 13, 14, 15, 16
Asmund from Asmund’s-peak, 25
Asmund Ondottson, 13, 14, 15, 16
Asmund Thorgrimson, called the Greyhaired (haerulangr),
the father of
Grettir the Strong, 25-27, 28-33, 35-36,
39, 40, 77-79, 81, 82,
90, 112, 113, 125, 126, 273
Asmund Ufeigh’s-son, called the Beardless (skegglauss),
5
Asny Vestar’s-daughter, wife of Ufeigh Grettir,
5
Asta Gudbrand’s-daughter, mother of Olaf the
Saint, King of Norway, 1