[2802 ff] The erection of funeral mounds on elevated places near the sea is well attested for Old Norse and Ags. times. An almost literal parallel of this passage occurs Odyssey xxiv 80 ff.; cp. xi 75 ff.; Iliad vii 85 ff.; Æneid vi 232 ff. Cf. Gummere G.O. 310 f.; Wright L 9.3. 469; Montelius 85.
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