Folding, gathering sheep in autumn up from the wilds
    and mountains, to be sorted for their owners according to
    the marks in the ears of each sheep, 174
  Gathering of eggs, 214
  Hay-harvest, falls into two parts, the first, the haymaking in the
    manured homefield, the second, in unmanured meads and mountains,
    132, 140
  Iron-smithying, 158
  Mowing-tide, the whole season of the summer while grass can be
    mown, 84, 132
  Watching of home-geese, 29
           of horses in winter, 31
           of neat, 102
           of sheep, 98, 101, 206
  Whale-getting, 21, 77
  Whale-cutting, 23

Pet Animals.

Keingala, a mare, 31
Pied-belly, a ram, 240
Saddle-fair, a mare, 135

Runes.

  Songs cut on staffs, in runes, 186, 198
  Baneful runes cut on a bewitched log of wood, 230, 231

Sagas Quoted.

  The saga of the Bandamenn, 29
    of Bodmod, Grimulf, and Gerpir, 25
    of Eric the Earl, 51
    of Grim who slew Hallmund, 188
    of the heath-slayings, 86
The saga of the Laxdale-men, 19

Settlings of land in Iceland, 10, 11, 12, 16, 17

Ships and their outfit.

  Boat, ten oars aboard, 22, 227
  Boat-stand, 20, and passim
  Beaks, 115
  Bark (karfi), of sixteen oars aboard, 46, 52, 62
  Bulwark, 3
  Forecastle, 3
  Grapplings, 3
  Gunwale, 147
  Row-barge, 115
  Sail, 16, 41
  Ship shield-hung from stem to stern, 52
    stained above sea, 52
    cleared from stem to stern, 3
    stem, stern, 3, 52
  Viking-ship, I
  War-ship, 6
  Work in connection with ship: 
    baling, 41, 42, 45
    pumping, 44
    rolling ship ashore, 174
    launching of, 46
    building of, 25
  Yard, 16

Skalds named in the Saga.

  Arnor Earls’-skald, 179
  Bessi, Skald-Torfa’s son, 34, 71
  Grettir Asmundson. 
  Hallmund, 161, 186-187
  Odd the Foundling-Skald, 34, 87-88
  Skald-Torfa, 34
  Svein of Bank, 135
  Thormod Coalbrowskald, 77

Social Stations.

  Bonder, 14, and passim
  Chapmen, passim
  Court-owner, an owner of all such houses in a town as form the
    surrounding of a court, 71
  Earl, a man next after the king in dignity, 14, 50 sqq.,
     69 sqq., 112
  Free-men, 53
  Godi, a chief combining in his person the religious and administrative
    authority of the district over which he ruled, 11, 26
  Hand-maid, 220, 221
  Herdsman. See Occupations. 
  Hersir, a man next to an earl in dignity, 14
  Home-folk, 54
  Home-women, 54
  House-carle, passim.

Sports and Games.

  Ball-play, 34
  Ball, 35
  Bat, 35
  Horse-fight, 87, 88
  Knave-game (note), 208
  Sports at Heron-ness thing, 210, 212
  Swimming, 117, 167, 220
  Tale-game, 208
  Wrestling, 211, 212, 216