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Hollander: Jómsv. aaga. 203
the promontory. But Ftb adds: ver skulum ok hafa skriþ-
]jos a skipi hverju þyiat nu er natmyrkr mikit. Still worse,
in 510 he wants the lanterns to be placed i stafni a çllum
skipum! The wording of 291, skolom ok hafa skriþljos
undir tioldum seems to show that the scribe boggled at
what is no doubt a later, and none too intelligent, addition.
20) After the death of his father king Sveinn prepares
the arvel and invites Pálnatoki, his fosterfather and chief
thane, to be present. Twice Pálnatoki disappoints him so
that he must let the funeral feast drop. The third time,
the king, on hearing that Pálnatoki will come, reserves for
him the seat i çndugi á inn óædra bekk ok hans manna
útar frá (in the high-seat on the lower bench, and his men
outward, i. e. toward the door). When the guests have
arrived at length Fjolnir shows the king the arrow which
had been his father’s bane. Sveinn becomes as red as blood.
Then Fjplnir instructs the link-bov Arnodd ”who stood before
the king’s table” to carry the arrow around to all men in
the hall, until some one would acknowledge it as his own.
H 13, 11—13: hann geingr fyrst innar fra sæti konungs
þa utar fra konungi til gáttar. þa geingr hann innar fyrir
Palnatoka; i. e. he went first about the (nobler) high-seat
(where the king and his followers sate), then from the
king’s seat to the door (and the less honorable seats there),
and then again (from the door) toward the (lower) high-
seat before Pálnatoki — who forthwith acknowledges his
missile. — Although extremely concise, the situation as
described in H must have been perfectly clear to an Ice-
lander of the older times. The account of Ftb and 291
seems to me much less so. (Ftb p. 164; 291, p. 59): hann
gengr innar fyst eftir holline fra hasæti konungs ok ben-
or þessa firir huern mann ok gengr æingi vid. ok þar kemr
enn at hann ferr utar hinum oædra megin. hann kemr nu
firir Palnatoki etc. i. e. He goes first inward along the
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