142 THE SETTLEMENT [PART III, CHAPTER XII.] Helgi was very shifty in his faith * * * § ; he believed in Christ, but made vows to Thor for sea-faring and hardy deeds. Then when Helgi sighted Iceland, he went to inquire of Thor where he should make land, the answer directed him northward round the land; then Hrolf, his son, asked whether Helgi must hold into Dumbshaf (=the foggy seat) if Thor should direct him thither, because the crew thought that now it was high time to leave the sea, inasmuch as the summer was in a great measure spent. Helgi took land outside Hrisey but in- side of Svarfadardale; he was the first winter in Hamundstead. They had a very hard winter. In the spring he went up to the top of Sunfell J ; there he saw how the land looked much blacker up the firth,^ which they called Island Firth, on account of the islands that lay there outside. After that Helgi bare to his ship all that he had there, while Hamund abode there behind. Helgi landed there at Boars’ crag (Galtahamar), where he put ashore two swine, and the boar was named Solvi ; they found them three winters afterwards in Solvadale, and then there were seventy swine. Helgi kenn’d, i.e. (surveyed with a view to settling) the whole district that summer, and settled all Island Firth between Sigluness and Rowanness, and made a great fire at every river mouth and thus hallowed to himself the whole district. He abode that winter at Bild’s river, and in the spring he moved his household to Christness, and dwelt there during the remainder of his life. In the removing of his * Helgi was very shifty in his belief. In Icelandic this is :—Helgi var bland- inn mjok t tru. This mixed state of faith seems to have been common to the early settlers; we are told, however, in the concluding chapter of the Book of the Settlement that even this uncertain state of Chrisrian belief became ex- tinguished in the course of generations, so that the land was entirely Heathen for nearly one hundred years on Icelandic form 120 winters. + Dumbshaf, the misty or foggy sea, is here put for the Polar Sea. t Solarfjall. § i.e. much more free from snow. household

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