NOTES TO THE TWENTY-SECOND CANTO.
Specimen of the metre.
Du Ungersvend, som sukker taus med blegen Ki̱nd,
Fordi ei Freya signer di̱t Bryst,
Fordi du ei kan böi̱e stolten Piges Si̱nd, etc.
In stanzas of eight lines.
In my translation I have adopted the ottava rima.
[80] Freya’s grief for the loss of Odur is related in the 15th Canto. Freya is often termed by the Scalds the “goddess of the golden tear.”