Editing Mermaid (section)

=== Other aliases ===

The terms ''margýgur'' or ''havgýgur'' as aliases for mermaid were apparently current among the populace in modern-age Iceland, according to [[Jón Árnason (author)|Jón Árnason]]{{Refn|Though he is clearly dependent on past written literature also, e.g.  [[Jón lærði Guðmundsson|Jón Guðmundsson]] the Learned (d. 1658), who also classified the mermen/mermaids among elves.}}<ref name="jon_arnason-saebuar"/><ref name="jon_arnason-eng-vol2-intro"/> alongside the ''marbendill'' (modern Icelandic for ON ''marmennill'')<ref name="nansen"/>

[[Benjamin Thorpe]] (1851) writing on Norwegian folklore gave ''margygr'' for mermaid (and ''[[marmennill]]'' for merman) as Norwegian folk terms,<ref name="thorpe2-p027-norw"/>{{efn|And also {{harvp|Bassett|1892|p=172}}}} but these are interpolations, which the source, [[Andreas Faye]]'s ''Norske sagn'' (1833),{{Refn|Thorpe,<ref name="thorpe2-p027-norw"/> identifies Faye as the general source on p. 9, note 2. .}} only side-noted as occurrences of old terms in medieval literature.<ref>{{harvp|Faye|1833|p=59}}. Note (''Anm.''). The merman ({{langx|non|marmendill}}) in ''[[Halfs saga]]'' (fourteenth century) and ''[[Landnámabók]]'';  ''margygr'' ({{langx|non|margyr}}) in the saga of St. Olaf.</ref>