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(1) "Oyce," a north country word for the mouth of a river, from

the Icelandic.

(2) "The Bay" (comp. ch. ii., and other passages), the name

given to the great bay in the east of Norway, the entrance

of which from the North Sea is the Cattegat, and at the end

of which is the Christiania Firth. The name also applies to

the land round the Bay, which thus formed a district, the

boundary of which, on the one side, was the promontory

called Lindesnaes, or the Naze, and on the other, the

Gota-Elf, the river on which the Swedish town of Gottenburg

stands, and off the mouth of which lies the island of

Hisingen, mentioned shortly after.

(3) Easterling, i.e., the Norseman Hallvard.

(4) Permia, the country one comes to after doubling the North

Cape.