¹² The line transposed here from Stanza 8 of the original to conform to Stanza 22.

¹³ “Drudge.”

¹⁴ Some of the names in this list, as well as in those following, are doubtful. The Translator has not followed the order of the original in this, or in the following, list of names.

¹⁵ In the Orkneyinga saga, Chap. 7, we are told that it was Earl Einar, the Norwegian ruler of the Orkneys in the ninth century, who first taught the islanders how to use peat. But the digging of peat was probably very old in the treeless portions of the North. Already Pliny (Hist. nat. XVI, 1) describes the method of curing it as practiced on the shores of the North Sea.