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 Ing Ing was first seen by men among the East-Danes, till, followed by his chariot, he departed eastwards over the waves. So the Heardingas named the hero.

Ethel An estate is very dear to every man, if he can enjoy there in his house whatever is right and proper in constant prosperity.

Dæg Day, the glorious light of the Creator, is sent by the Lord; it is beloved of men, a source of hope and happiness to rich and poor, and of service to all.

Ac The oak fattens the flesh of pigs for the children of men. Often it traverses the gannet's bath, and the ocean proves whether the oak keeps faith in honourable fashion.

coiffure "; of. Tacitus' account of the Suevi, Germ. c. xxxvin.). The term ikati Haddingja, " prince of the H.," is used in Kalfavisa (Skaldskaparmal, c. Lvin.), and is applied to Helgi, the reincarnation of Helgi Huudingsbani, in the prose which follows Helgakviba Huudin^sbana n. In two of the Fornaldar Sogur, Hr6mundarsaga Greipssonar, c. vi., and Orvar-Oddssaga, o. xiv., Haddingi is a personal name; and in Saxo, Bk i. (Holder, p. 19 ff.J, mention is made of a Hadingus, King of the Danes, whose visit to the nether world is probably alluded to in the phrase from Gu|>rtinarkvi|>a bin forna, c. xxiu., lands Haddingja dx tiskorit. It is worthy of note, moreover, that the verses (Gylf, c. xxin.) in which NJ9rSr and Skai bewail their incompatibility of temperament are by Saxo (Holder, p. 33) attributed to Hadingus and his wife. On the whole it seems most satisfactory to regard Htardingat as the name of a people or a dynasty, conceivably the North Suevi; for Saxo, at any rate, derives fictitious personages from national or dynastic names, of. Hothbroddug, Bk H. (Holder, p. 52), and the Heaffobeardan of Beowulf, vv. 2032 ff. 71. Ejxl (Salzburg AS. oedil, Goth, utal), originally perhaps *r>Jrila, the name of the letter in the original alphabet. Cf. Golden Horn of Gallehus (Jutland), HORNA TAWIDO; English coin from British Museum, 8KANOMODU. In AS. it became cej>el (WS. ef>el) and the letter changed its value to el, e.g. Waldhere, T. 81, Beowulf, v. 520, 913, 1702. 74. Day (Salz. AS. daeg, Goth. daaz). Hickes, following the ignorant scribe of Dom. A. ix., inserts m, iminn, above the correct value d. The Runic letter D is regularly found as a grammalogue for dag in the Rituale of Durham, occasionally too in the Lindisfarne Gospels. 77. Ac (<. * aik-), doubtless a ligature of A and I, the first of the characters introduced to express the sound-changes which differentiated AS. from the language of the earliest Northern inscriptions. elda bearnum Jlmteei fodor, acorns, as the food of swine, since pork was the flesh most commonly eaten in AS. times. For an illustration of swine feeding in an oak-forest, of. AS. calendar for September, Cott. Tib. B. v., Jul. A. vi. For the second part of the stanza, cf. Egill Skallagrimsson's HSfuflautn, str. i., "Drrfft eik d flat vif uabrot " (Egilssaga, o. ix.).