> frá Keldum

I don't know if this would have been on the minds of people building
farms, but those bogs could come in handy for defense. There's a
scene in Þorgils saga ok Hafliða where attackers are thwarted thanks
to a combination of 'blautar mýrar' and sword-weilding women.

> > > lá hátt tanngarðurinn

> I think the author is saying that his upper teeth are

large and protruding - I'm sure there must be an English
term for that? We call them "skögultennur" - teeth
that "skaga fram" - i.e. "protrude". S. was probably ugly
as sin - but the author is being polite about it. At least
that is the sense I get from the whole description.

Buck-toothed maybe? Although that's specifically the top front teeth
sticking out, i.e. like a rabbit's.

LN