INDEX 



385 



Paul, Norwegian bishop, 46. 



Paul, Saint, 275. 



Peace, divine virgin, 252, 254, 



256-259, 279-281, 283, 285, 



287. 

 Peasants, yeomen, 73, 78, 172, 



174; see husbandmen. 

 Penalties, 318-322, 324, 325, 



327, 328. 

 Penance, Theory of, 51, 52, 318, 



319, 321, 343, 346. 

 Pens, Soren, Icelandic merchant, 



66. 



Persia, 244 note. 

 Peter, Saint, 42, 248, 249, 282, 



284, 285. 



Peter, Skule's son, 48. 

 Petrifying waters, 104, 105, 107, 



128. 



Petrus Alfonsus, 9, 26. 

 Petrus Comestor, 6, 10. 

 Pharaoh, 236, 244, 278, 283, 305. 

 Philistines, 329. 

 Pilgrims and pilgrimages, 3, 19, 



27, 28. 



Pitch, Use of, in defensive war- 

 fare, 225. 



Pliny the Elder, 18. 

 Plural and singular terms, 



Proper use of, 187-190. 

 Polo, Marco, 2. 

 Pope, 175, 241, 294. 

 Porpoise, 119. 

 Portugal, 31. 

 "Praise of Divine Wisdom," 



Alexander Neckam's, 12. 

 Prester John, 11, 101 note. 

 Pretenders to the Norwegian 



throne, 34, 35, 48. 



Promises, see vows. 



Proper names, Irish, 25. 



" Prow-boar," device used in 



naval warfare, 216. 

 Psalter, 276. 

 Ptolemaic theory of the universe, 



12-14. 

 Purgatory of Saint Patrick, 110 



note. 



HABANUS, Maurus, medieval 



scholar and writer, 20, 95 



note, 147 note. 

 Ram, siege engine, 221, 222. 

 " Raven whale," 120. 

 " Red comb," a sort of whale, 



122, 123. 



Reindeer in Greenland, 145. 

 Rhine River, 27, 28. 

 Riant, Count, 19. 

 Right whale, 121, 123 note. 

 Rome, 27, 28, 241. 

 Rorqual, 124. 

 " Running wheel," device used 



in defending castles, 223. 



Sachsenspiegel, 8. 



Saddle for use in warfare, 218, 



219. 



Saddleback, a sort of seal, 140. 

 Saint Edmundsbury, 38. 

 Salmon, 109. 

 Samuel, Hebrew prophet, 326, 



328, 329. 

 Sanctuary, Right of, 48, 64, 348, 



351-353, 357, 358, 363. 

 Satan, 132, 133. 

 Saul, king of Israel, 42, 52,53, 



279, 283, 317, 319-322, 325- 



