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similarity is that Arnljótr hafði skarlatsklœði, búin gull-
hlgðum and Hemingr was j raudum kyrtli og hafdi gull
hlad vm enne. This is hardly the clothing one would expect
robbers and hunters to wear and the author of HÞ may
have been influenced by the account in Ól.s.h.
Later (159>25) the king comments on Heming’s gold-
adorned arrows. Similar adornment is mentioned in
Qrvar-Odds sagaw).
§ 6. The Hemingr-legend.
a) With Heming’s arrival at Torgar and his presenta-
tion to the king, the author of HÞ begins in earnest upon
the material of the Hemingr-legend.
Much has already been written on this subject, especi-
ally by Frederik Schiern in Et nordisk Sagns Vandringer,
fornemmelig med Hensyn til Sagnet om Wilhelm Tell,
Historisk Tidsskrift I, 1840, 45-111; O. Klockhoff in
Konung Harald och Heming, Uppsalastudier tillegnade
Sophus Bugge, 1892, 114-39 and De nordiska framstáll-
ningarna af Tellsagan, Arkiv 12, 1896, 171-200; and
Knut Liestol in Hemings-tátten, Maal og Minne, 1933,
99-110, reprinted in Saga og Folkeminne, 1941, 41-52
(references in this edition are to Maal og Minne, 1933).
Frequent reference will be made to the work of these
scholars in the following pages.
b) (i) Hemingr seems to have been known in traditions
in both Northern and Southern Norway as an excellent
skier. The ballad of Heming og gyvri30) tells how he
rescues a maiden from a giant and escapes from the
mountains on his skis. Skiing does not occur in the other
ballads on a similar subject.
(ii) A story from Vefsn in Nordland is quoted by Leiv
29) Ed. R. C. Boer, 149, for other examples cf. H. Falk, Altnor-
dische Waffenkunde, 1914, 101.
30) Ed. Bo and Solheim, I, 145-49.