BURIALS OF BALDR, SKALLAGRIM, A\I> OTHERS. 



from grief. She was laid on the pyre and it was set on fire. 

 Thor went to it and consecrated it with Mjoluir. At his feel 

 there ran a Bverg named Lit. 'Thor pushed him with his 

 foot into the tire, and he was burned. To this burning came 

 many kinds of people. First went Odin and his ravens and 

 Frigg, as well as the Valkyrias. Frey drove in a carriage 

 drawn by the boar called GuHiribursti (gold bristle) or 8/i>/- 

 riti/tanni (the awful-tusked). Heimdal rode the horse GnU- 

 topp (gold tuft), and Freyja with her cats. There came also 

 many Hrim Thursar and Bergrisar. Odin laid on the pyre 

 the gold ring Draupnir ; afterwards every ninth night there 

 dropped from it eight equally heavy gold rings. The horse 

 of Baldr was led on the pyre in full harness " (Gylfaginnino- 

 eh. 49). 



" They carried him in the snow-storm to Nanstanes, where a 

 tent was put over him at night. In the morning, at high 

 water, Skaliagrim was laid in a ship, and they rowed TO 

 Digranes. Egil had a mound made near the end of the 

 ness (cape), and in this he was laid, with his horse, his 

 weapons, and smithying tools. It is not mentioned that loose 

 property was put in the mound with him. Egil took the 

 inheritance, lands, and loose property; he took care of the 

 farm " (Egil's Saga, c. 61). 



CT nd run after having slain her husband Atli said : 



I will buy a .ship (knOrr), 1 

 And a painted coffin, 

 Wax well the sheets 2 



To wrap thy corpse with ; 

 Think of every need, 

 As if we were friends. 



" Geirmund died at Geirmundsstadir, and was laid in a ship 

 in the woods near the farm (gard)." 



Of this Geirmund much is told of in Sturlunga as a great 

 chief. 



" Thorir, An's brother, fell in a battle against king Lugjaldi 

 of Naumdcelafylki. 



"An had a mound made and put a ship in it and placed 

 Thorir in its lypting, but the king's men he placed along both 

 sides of the ship that it might look as if all served him " (An 

 Bogsveigi's Saga, ch. 6). 



" The brothers Eirik and Jorund became very famous by this 

 deed (slaying King Gudlaug of Halogahmd), and they thought 

 themselves far greater men than before. When they heard 



1 Volsunga Sau;a. ch. 38 ; instead of a 

 ship he is buried in a stone coffin, but 



the poetry must be more trusted. 

 Smear well with wax the sheets. 



