Footnotes

1

“Coward!”

2

“May the trolls take you all!” (A pre-Christian equivalent of “Damn you!”)

3

“What is your name?”

4

“Poison!”

5

“Odin and Frigg.” (King and Queen of the Norse gods.)

6

“Where are you, dogs? Come out!”

7

“Ho, my friend! You shall drink with me!”

8

“Ale!”

9

“Drink!”

10

“Yes, very good,”

11

“Jens—come here!”

12

Suicide.

13

Evil spirits.

14

Stop! (You, plural.)

15

“Drink!”… “and welcome to the Orkney Islands.”

16

An Old Norse term of insult that can be translated as “mad-dog” but is closer in meaning to the German Schweinhund.

17

Barbarians. Specially used about the natives of Greenland and North America.

18

“Come on! The last bit of work.”

19

“Ale!” … “Pork, ale and cheese!”

20

“Great Odin!”

21

“Axes, swords!”

22

Old friend.

23

“Good-bye.”

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