1. The allusion to Amlódi.  The verse put, in the Prose Edda, into the mouth of the tenth century poet-adventurer, Snæbiorn, runs (C. P. B. ii. 55):  "Men say that the nine maidens of the island-mill (the ocean) are working hard at the host-devouring skerry-quern (the sea), out beyond the skirts of the earth; yea, they have for ages past been grinding at Amlódi's meal-bin (the sea)."  This is the only extant allusion to Amlódi by name earlier than Saxo.  The inference from it is, that a myth was current in Iceland, 200 years before Saxo, concerning a man or giant, Amlódi, whose quern the sea was called; perhaps an inhabitant of its depths...
... Amleth, Amlódi.  Like Brutus, it means dull or foolish.  Vigfússon (Icel. Dict. s.v.) conjecturally connects it with an Anglo-Saxon word homola, which occurs once in the laws of Alfred, and which he translates "fool;"  But Bosworth and Toller give up the meaning of homola.  Vigfússon gives as a secondary modern meaning, "an imbecile, weak person, one of weak bodily frame, unable to do work, not up to the mark. "You are a great Amlódi, that is, a weak fellow, poor fool."  Compounds carry out his idea, amlóda-skaþr, for instance, meaning "imbecility." (The Nine Books of the Danish History of Saxo Grammaticus, Elton-Powell, 1906)