402 Custom and Belief in Icelandic Sagas.
Second Quarter.
9. [EgiPs Saga, 933.) A howe was made for Harald
Harfagr at Haugasund.
10. {lb., 934.) Egil laid his father Skallagrim in a ship
and rowed out to Digraness. There a howe was made, and Skallagrim laid in with his horse and weapons and smith's tools. It is not told that movable property was laid with him in the howe.
11. {Waterdale Saga, 935.) Ingimund was laid in a
boat from the ship Stigandi, and everything done as honourably as was the custom with men of rank.
12. {Heimskringla, c. 950.) Hakon the Good had the
dead men laid in ships, which he drew up from the shore to the battlefield.
Last Quarter.
13. {EgiVs Saga, 960.) Skallagrim's howe was opened,
and Egil's son BoSvar laid in.
14. {Gisli's Saga, 963.) Vestein was laid in the howe
according to custom. His murderer Thorgrim bound on the hell-shoes, saying " It is customary when men have to walk to Valhalla."
15. {lb., 964.) Thorgrim was laid in a ship, and the
howe made in the old way ; before it was closed, his murderer Gisli put a stone in the boat as an anchor.
16. {Svarfdcela, 965.) Karl and the Eastman were
carried up to Karl's River, and there laid in a ship, and much treasure with them.
17. {Gislfs Saga, 978.) Thorkell was howed in the
old way.
18. {Laxdcsta, 972.) Hoskuld was howed honourably.
Little money was put in the howe with him.
19. {EgiVs Saga, 982.) A howe was made and Egil
laid in with his weapons and clothes.
