CANTO V.
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.