Chapter 5

Stanza 1. King Ring ruled over Ringerike, on the west side of Kristiania fjord.

4. _snäckorna_, ships.

4. _vita vingar_, white wings, sails.

4. _av rikdom, som rikdomen (be)tingar_. Of wealth that brings more wealth, or upon which further wealth is contingent.

11. _jag gått i frö_, I have grown old.

11. _kungens de glesnade lockar. De_ is here used irregularly.

17. _Men lungorna nekade bifall alltjämt_. Constantly the signs refused to he affirmative. For reading of signs see note, canto II: 13.

2l. _i templet sätter jag min syster_. The temple of Balder is referred to. Here persons were inviolate and it was especially a great crime for a man to visit a woman in this sacred place.