P. 33, note. Octavian, ed. Sarrazin, p. 8, 195 ff, p. 72, 157 ff.
40 a, the second paragraph. There are five copies of the Färöe ballad. The copy in the Antiquarisk Tidsskrift was made up from four. A fifth, printed by Hammershaimb in Færøsk Anthologi, p. 188, No 25, has a widely divergent and very inferior story. There is no ordeal by battle. Oluva asks to be subjected to three probations, sea, fire, and a snake-house, and comes off triumphantly. Mylint, her slanderer, is so absurd as to propose to try the snake-house, and is torn to pieces ere he is half in. Oluva goes into a cloister.
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