Chapter 12

Stanza 2. _då rår Höder för världen_, then Höder (Öder) rules the world. Höder, the blind brother of Balder, is the god of night and darkness.

7. _Västervågor_, the western sea.

12. _din like_, one like you.

17. _Fritiof blygs, att han darrar_, Fritiof is so ashamed that he trembles. The antecedent of _han_ may be Björn and not Fritiof, the meaning then being, that the latter is ashamed because Björn trembles.

20. _flödar_, pours water.

22. _eldröd hane_. The red cock, the symbol of fire.

25. _Muspels söner_, the flames. Muspel or Muspelhem, the fire world, lay south of the abyss Ginnungagap and was guarded by the flame giant Surt.