Editing Merman (section)

=== Marmennill ===
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A merman is called ''marmennill'' in Old Norse,<ref name="craigie"/> attested in the ''Ladnámabók''.<ref name="vigfusson&powell"/>{{Refn|Group="lower-alpha"|The Sturlubók version gives ''marmennill'', while the [[Hauksbók]] gives ''margmelli''.<ref name="cochrane"/>}} An early settler in Iceland ({{c.|11th century}}){{Refn|group="lower-alpha"|The settler was Grímr Ingjaldsson whose family hails from Haddingjadalr ([[Hallingdal]]), Norway.<ref name="craigie"/>}} allegedly caught a merman while fishing, and the creature prophesied one thing: the man's son will gain possession of the piece of land where the mare Skálm chooses to "lie down under her load". In a subsequent fishing trip the man was drowned, survived by the boy who stayed behind.{{Refn|group="lower-alpha"|This boy is identifiable as Þórir<ref name="mitchell"/> (anglicized as Thore<ref name="vigfusson&powell"/>).}}<ref name="vigfusson&powell"/><ref name="craigie"/><ref name="mitchell"/><ref name="palsson1988"/>