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Page 58
28. Throughout this canto Tegn�r draws freely from Havamal, the "Song of
Oden" or the "Song of the Most High," which is replete with precepts on
morality and wisdom. In this stanza this ancient Scandinavian song is
followed very closely. Note the frequent sarcastic references to woman in
the Saga.
32. _norna_. The norns, three in number, weave the fate of men and gods.
Urda was the norn of the past, Verdandi of the present, and Skulda of the
future.
32. _hon st�tte p� sk�ld_. The meaning is: Wherever fate threatened with
some danger it was met by courage and vigilance.
33. _de asas�ner_. See note, canto I: 35.
33. _Nordlands kungar_, the kings of the Northland.
38. _bautasten_. A monument erected in honor of rulers or heroes.
39. _Frej_, the god of sunshine and warm summer showers, hence also the
god of harvests.
CANTO III.
Line 1. _Voro nu satta i h�g_. Were interred.
2. _fj�rden_. In this case Sognefjord.
6. _f�ste i lugn sin boning p� Framn�s_. Took up his abode on Framn�s.
This probably lay on the south side of Sognefjord.
9. _de kullarnas topp. De_ is seldom used in this way. Here supplied for
the sake of the meter.
15. _som l�ngta till st�van_. That yearn to be milked.
23. _till tio tolfter p� hundrat_. A so-called _storhundrade_ or great
hundred was 120.
26. _h�gs�tespelare_, the posts of the seat of honor. On it were carved
images of Oden and Frej.
28. _Frej med solen p� hatten_. Frej was the sun god and was pictured
with a sun on his helmet.
34. _�sterv�g_, Eastern billow, the Baltic. _V�stersaltet_, Western salt,
the North Sea, _Gandvik_, the White Sea.
36. _Brage_, the god of poetry and music.
38. _Mimers evigt sorlande v�g_. Mimer's ever rippling fountain. The god
Mimer guarded the fountain of wisdom. Oden once pawned one of his eyes
for a drink out of this fountain.
52. _visthus_. These were small houses, separated from the main building,
in which food was kept.
58. _�sterland_, Asia.
59. _dv�rgarnas eld_. The dwarfs were supposed to be most skillful
smiths.
61. _Gr�ningasund_, a sound between Seeland, Moen and Falster in Denmark.
62. _het_, abbrev. for _hette_.
63. _Uller�ker_, a royal estate near Uppsala, where judicial assemblies
were held.
68. _J�rnh�s_. The word means iron skull.
76. _vid solens portar_, in Asia.
79. _Hildur_, the goddess of war. "Hildur's lek" means war.
84. _Vaulund_ was the most skillful smith among the dwarfs. He is called
_haltande_, lame or limping, because Mimer's wife, who was his bitter
enemy, had cut the tendons of his knees.
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