You did not quote any such thing to me, and the context does not suggest that you are thinking on the matter with any depth. Does a blog entry, trying to condense wide reading in a way that will be understandable to the average educated reader, demand or need umpteen fricking footnotes? Who is the intellectual bully and snob here, to demand such things? If you want them, then go and read the damned HoB and see if you can even understand half the sources, let alone challenge my use of them. Anyway, if you had tried with less prejudice and arrogance, you would have found evidence of direct reading of the Life of Marinus, the Landnamabok and a couple of Icelandic sagas, not to mention a shelf-ful of books by modern historians (or did you think I invented all those references to Prussia, Lithuania, Estonia, Finland, etc etc.? Wouldn't put it past you.)