1.Unfortunately we know less about them than we should like since they are kept mainly in charters, runic books, a few poems, and some interlinear translations of the Bible.
4.After all, even the publisher of Goetze's 1987 translation, which was sanitized of the most odious passages, felt compelled to include a disclaimer that renounced complicity with the book's demeaning stereotypes of non-western peoples.