Chapter 18

Stansa 2. _med kappor över öga_. The falcons were trained for the hunt by starving them and keeping a hood over their eyes. This was removed just before the bird was released. It then rose perpendicularly and started in pursuit of its prey.

3. _Rota_, a valkyr.

5. _Odens sal_, heaven.

5. _valkyrjan_, the huntress.

7. _Grubblar viking_. This has a conditional meaning; _om_ implied before the clause.

9. _Ty de hata mänskors ätter_. Fritiof had changed his ideas about the gods. See canto VIII: 235.

13-15. The birds give expression to Fritiof's own thoughts.

16. _I, som aldrig skulle_. The easier conversational form _skulle_ is here used, rather than _skullen_, which the strict adherence to grammatical forms would require.

17. _Nifelhem_, the abode of mist and darkness.

25. _varg i veum_, wolf in the temple, i. e., profaner of the sanctuary.