tiania Firth, at the top of the
"Bay".]

[Footnote 34: A town in Sweden on the Goeta-Elf.]

[Footnote 35: The mainland of Orkney, now Pomona.]

[Footnote 36: Now Stroma, in the Pentland Firth.]

[Footnote 37: By so doing Hrapp would have cleared himself of his own
outlawry.]

[Footnote 38: "Prop of sea-waves' fire," a periphrasis for a woman that
bears gold on her arm.]

[Footnote 39: "Skates that skim," etc., a periphrasis for ships.]

[Footnote 40: "Odin's mocking cup," mocking songs.]

[Footnote 41: An allusion to the Beast Epic, where the cunning fox
laughs at the flayed condition of his stupid foes, the wolf and bear. We
should say, "Don't stop to speak with him, but rather beat him black and
blue".]

[Footnote 42: "Sea-stag," periphrasis for ship.]

[Footnote 43: "Sea-fire bearers," the bearers of gold, men, that is,
Helgi and Grim.]

[Footnote 44: "Byrnie-breacher," piercer of coats of mail.]

[Footnote 45: "Noisy ogre's namesake," an allusion to the name of
Skarphedinn's axe, "the ogress of war".]

[Footnote 46: Rood-cross, a crucifix.]

[Footnote 47: His son was Glum who fared to the burning with Flosi.]

[Footnote 48: "Forge which foams with song," the poet's head, in which
songs are forged, and gush forth like foaming mead.]

[Footnote 49: "Hero's helm-prop," the hero's, man's, head which supports
his helm.]

[Footnote 50: It is needless to say that this Hall was not Hall of the
Side.]

[Footnote 51: "Wolf of Gods," the "_caput lupinum_," the outlaw of
heaven, the outcast from Valhalla, Thangbrand.]

[Footnote 52: "The other wolf," Gudleif.]

[Footnote 53: "Swarthy skarf," the skarf, or _pelecanus cardo_, the
cormorant. He compares the message of Thorwald to the cormorant shimming
over the waves, and says he will never take it. "Snap at flies," a very
common Icelandic metaphor from fish rising to a fly.]

[Footnote 54: Maurer thinks the allusion is here to some mythological
legend on Odin's adventures which has not come dawn to us.]

[Footnote 55: "He that giant's," etc., Thor.]

[Footnote 56: "Mew-field's bison," the sea-going ship, which sails over
he plain of the sea-mew.]

[Footnote 57: "Bell's warder," the Christian priest whose bell-ringing
formed part of the rites of the new faith.]

[Footnote 58: "Falcon of the strand," ship.]

[Footnote 59: "Courser of the causeway," ship.]

[Footnote 60: "Gylfi's hart," ship.]

[Footnote 61: "Viking's snow-shoe," sea-king's ship.