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  WATERDALE SAGA: 249, 285, 298

  WEATHERLID (Vetrliði): the skald 44. 266

  WEBSTER, JOHN: the dramatist xxxi, xxxii. 239. 253

  WENDS: 276

  WEREWOLF: see Shape-strong

  WESTFOLD (Vestfold): Norw., W. of the Oslofirth, the ancestral kingdom of K. Harald Hairfair 32; 50. 256, 264

  WESTMEN-ISLES(Vestmannaeyjar): 299

  WEST-OVER-SEA: 289

  WHALE-ISLES (Hválseyjar): Icel. 57

  WHEY-VAT: 306

  WHITE DEVIL, THE: xxxi

  WHITEWATER (Hvítá): a great river running into Burgfirth 56; 58; 74; 186; 214; 219.269

  WHITEWATER-MEADS (Hvítárvellir): 75; (‘the Meads’) 186. 299

  WICK, THE (Vík): Norw., the whole countryside surrounding the Oslofirth 3; 14; 32; 34–5; 37; 50–1; 96; 125; 147–8; 159; 164; 166–7; 183. 256

  WINA (Vína): a river in Northumberland 110

  WINAHEATH (Vinheiðr): in Northumberland 101. 280–1

  WINAWOOD (Vínuskógar): 101

  WIND-SHEATH: 218. 309

  WITCHES: 246–7

  WITHYMIRE (Viðimýrr): Icel., on Skagafirth 202

  WOLF (Úlfr): see Kveldulf

  WOLF: the name of two brethren, Vermlanders, sent by Earl Arnvid to slay Egil in Eidwood 177–8; 180–1. 297

  WOLF THE FEARLESS (enn óargi): 1

  WOLF’S RIDE: 248

  WOODS: 268

  WORM-CLOSE: 279

  WORM THE STRONG (Ormr enn sterki): s. of Storolf Ketil Haeng’s s. 44

  YNGVAR (Yngvarr): Skallagrim’s father-in-law 36; incurs therefore K. Harald’s wrath, and joins Sk. in Iceland 58; dwells at Alptaness 59; praises Egil’s first childish verses 61–2; 132

  YORK (Jorvík): 99; 134–5; 146; 195. 270, 271, 288

  YOU: (use of 2nd pers. pl.) 259

  YRR (Ýrr): d. of Geirmund Hellskin 185

  YULE: 295

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