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- Title: Notes and Queries, Number 61, December 28, 1850
- Author : Various Authors
- Release Date : January 01, 2012
- Genre: Study Aids,Books,Reference,
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This is a notes book. A very unexpected effect of sorrow, but one that does not seem to be unprecedented. 'A plague of sighing and grief', says Falstaff. 'It blows a man up like a bladder'. A remarkable illustration of Falstaff's assertion, and of the Scottish ballad, is to be found in this Saga of Egil Skallagrimson. Bodvar, the son of Egil, was wrecked on the coast of Iceland. His body was thrown up by the waves near Einarsness, where Egil found it, and buried it in the tomb of his father Skallagrim. The Saga continues thus. 'After that, Egil rode home to Borgar; and when he came there, he went straightway into the locked chamber where he was wont to sleep; and there he laid him down, and shot forth the bolt. No man dared speak a word to him. And thus it is said that Egil was clad when he laid Bodvar in the tomb. His hose were bound fast about his legs, and he had on a red linen kirtle, narrow above, and tied with strings at the sides. And men say that his body swelled so greatly that his kirtle burst from off him, and so did his hose.