H USE-B UILDING. 



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brought in. Many whales were there then, and they could 

 shoot as many as they wanted, for the creatures were not used 

 to men. He had a third beer near the sea, in the western 

 part of Myrar, where it was still easier to procure drift- wood ; 

 there he had grain grown and called the farm Akrar. Some 

 outlying islands there were called Hvalseyjar, because whales 

 were found on them. Skallagrim also had his men up at the 

 salmon rivers to fish, and placed Odd Einlmi at Gljufra to 

 take care of the catch ; he lived at Einbuabrekkur, and 

 Einbuanes is named from him. . . . When the cattle of Skalla- 

 grim grew numerous they all went up on the mountains in the 

 summer. He found that those cattle which went up on the 

 heaths became much larger and fatter, and that the sheep 

 kept themselves during the winter in mountain valleys if they 

 were not taken down, so he had a farm made up at the moun- 

 tain, and had a household there where his sheep were taken 

 care of. Gris took care of that farm, and Grisartunga is 

 named from him " (Egil's Saga, c. 29). 



Fig. 1319. Celt, of iron, ^ real size, found with five Roman silver coins 

 (Adnan-Commodus). Gotland. 



" Thorstein had built a church on his farm. From this he 

 had made a bridge with great skill ; under the beams which sup- 

 ported it were rings with tinkling bells l attached to them, so 

 that when people walked over it they were heard at Skarfs- 

 stadir, half a sea-mile distant. Thorstein took much pains 

 with this bridge, for he was a great worker in iron. Gretti 

 worked hard in beating the iron that winter, though at times 

 he did not care to do it. He was however quiet that winter, 

 so that nothing happened " (Gretti's Saga, c. 53). 2 



" Then Skallagrim set up a household in Knarrarnes, and 

 there had a farm for a long time after. He was a great iron- 

 smith, and used much red iron ore 3 during the winters. He 

 had a smithy made close to the sea, far from Borg, at Rau- 

 farnes " (Egil's Saga, c. 30). 



1 Din-bells = dyn-bjb'llur. 



2 Cf. also Gisli "Sursson's Saga, p. 47. 



3 Extracted much iron out of iron-ore 

 haematite. 



