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● Transcriber’s Notes: ○ The Errata was applied to the text. The corrections made are as follows: ▪ Page lxxix.—For “Há Kirkiu”, read “Há Kirkia”. ▪ Page 44.—For “She was married to Kolbein Hruga, read “She was the mother of Hakon Barn and of Herborg, who was married to Kolbein Hruga.” ▪ Page 135.—After “Verbon”, read “(Nerbon).” ▪ Page Footnote 1 on p. 157 (footnote 403).—For “Corness”, read “Carness”. ▪ Page Footnote 1 on p. 192 (footnote 449).—For “death”, in Note 1, read “divorce”.
○ Missing or obscured punctuation was silently corrected. ○ Typographical errors were silently corrected. ○ Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation were made consistent only when a predominant form was found in this book. ○ Text that was in italics is enclosed by underscores (_italics_); text that was bold by “equal” signs (=bold=).