INDEX 



387 



Sun, The, office of, 87, 300; 



effect of, on the winds, 87-89, 



158-160; 



changes hi the course of, 92- 



99,104,149,155,156; 



influence of, on climate, 96-99. 

 Surcingle, 218. 

 Sverre, Norwegian long, 34, 37- 



39, 47, 54-61. 

 Sweden, 3, 4, 30, 65. 

 Swords of kings and bishops, 



364-366. 

 Sylvester, pope and saint, 241. 



TABLE service and manners, 80, 

 210,211,227,228. 



Tar, Use of, in warfare, 225 



Tara, 113 note; seeThemar. 



Tarquin, Roman citizen, 310, 

 311,313,314. 



Thegn, King's, 61. 



Thegn money, 168, 171. 



Themar, Irish borough, 113-115, 

 308, 312, 314. 



Theodoric, 3. 



Theodosius II, Roman emperor, 

 316 note. 



Thieves, The two, at the cruci- 

 fixion, 282, 285. 



Thomas Aquinas, medieval phil- 

 osopher and theologian, 2. 



Tides, 12, 16, 17, 83, 86, 92-94. 



Time, Divisions of, 11, 16, 93- 

 95. 



Tools for ship repairs, 84. 



Topographia Hibernica of Giral- 

 dus Cambrensis, 22, 23. 



Torment, Places of, in Sicily and 

 Iceland, 130, 131. 



Towers for siege warfare, 215, 



21tf, 221, 225. 

 Trebuckets, siege engines, 220, 



222. 

 Trondhjem, 26, 46, 59, 64, 66; 



see Nidaros. 

 Truth, divine virgin, 252, 254, 



255, 257-259, 278, 279, 281, 



283, 285, 287, 324. 

 Tunis, 31. 

 Turnpikes for use in defensive 



warfare, 223. 



ULSTER, 107 note. 



Unas, a Faroese, 37. 



Unger, Carl R., editor of the 



King's Mirror, 68. 

 Ur, Hebrew high priest, 280, 284. 

 Uriah, Hebrew warrior, 53, 281, 



322-325, 328. 

 Utrecht, 28. 



VAAG, fishing village in Lofoten, 



98. 

 Valdemar the Victorious, Danish 



king, 3, 4, 31. 

 Valladolid, 31. 

 Vashti, Persian queen, 237, 238, 



240, 243, 244. 

 Venomous animals unable to 



live in Ireland, 106. 

 Vincent of Beauvais, encyclope- 

 dist^. 

 Volcanic fires, 17, 21, 126-129, 



130, 131. 

 Vows and promises, when to be 



kept and when broken, 353- 



357. 

 Vulgate, 9. 



