Chapter 3

Line 1. _Voro nu satta i hög_. Were interred.

2. _fjärden_. In this case Sognefjord.

6. _fäste i lugn sin boning på Framnäs_. Took up his abode on Framnäs. 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 längta till stävan_. That yearn to be milked.

23. _till tio tolfter på hundrat_. A so-called _storhundrade_ or great hundred was 120.

26. _högsätespelare_, the posts of the seat of honor. On it were carved images of Oden and Frej.

28. _Frej med solen på hatten_. Frej was the sun god and was pictured with a sun on his helmet.

34. _Östervåg_, Eastern billow, the Baltic. _Västersaltet_, Western salt, the North Sea, _Gandvik_, the White Sea.

36. _Brage_, the god of poetry and music.

38. _Mimers evigt sorlande våg_. 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. _Österland_, Asia.

59. _dvärgarnas eld_. The dwarfs were supposed to be most skillful smiths.

61. _Gröningasund_, a sound between Seeland, Moen and Falster in Denmark.

62. _het_, abbrev. for _hette_.

63. _Ulleråker_, a royal estate near Uppsala, where judicial assemblies were held.

68. _Järnhös_. 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.

85. _Tre mark höll han i vikt_. It weighed three marks. A mark was approximately one half kilogram.

88. _Alfhem_, the realm of air between heaven and earth, was the home of the elves and of Frej.

90. _Saga_, wife of Oden and goddess of history. She dwelt in Sökvabäck beneath the stream of time and events, taking note of all she saw. Here Oden visited her daily to drink the pure water from golden beakers and listen to her songs about former days.

99. After the death of Balder (see note, canto I: 22) his body was burned on a great funeral pyre.

100. _Glitner_, "glittering hall," the home of Forsete, the god of justice.

110. _Bretland_, England.

111. _satt sig med skepp_, interred with ship and all.

114. _draken_. The viking ships were so called because in the prow were placed carved images of the dragon's head and the stern was made to resemble the dragon's tail.

164. _Ägir_, the god of the stormy sea.

171. _vingarna_. The sails.

172. _blev efter_. Was left behind in the race.

179. _Var han ej konungason_. Even though he was not a king's son.

186. _blandat blod med varandra_. A solemn compact of brotherhood was sealed by the parties to it causing their blood to flow together from self-inflicted wounds while they made the promises that are stated in the text.