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A St. George of Dhofar 65
12. The shield is small and circular, not usually more than a foot and a
half in diameter, and is very heavy, being made of hippopotamus hide; M
gawb, J gub.
13. The concepts of a ‘dervish’ and of a ‘poor man’ overlap.
14. Stith Thompson, H (Tests).
15. See n. 9.
16. Cf. G. J6nsson, Egils saga Skalla-Grimssonar, Reykjavik, 1945,
chaps. 31 and 40. See also M. Bowra, Heroic poetry, London, 1961, 65 ff.
17. See n. 11.
18. Cf. The saga of the Volsungs (text and translation by R. G. Finch),
London, 1965 (chap. 18), 30 f.
19. Bowra, Heroic poetry, 99.
20. Iliad xviii, 225-7.